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...heard in Westminster predicting Blair will quit during the next term. A longtime adviser suggests the Prime Minister will indeed leave in four or five years, while he's still young enough to do something else - an outcome deeply desired by his heir apparent Gordon Brown, the brooding Chancellor of the Exchequer. A Liberal Democrat official is sure Blair will go too, while the going is good: "He has set up an unbridgeable gap between expectations and reality and filled it with half-truths. He'll leave because he can't sustain...
...Minister John Major standing on his old-fashioned soapbox, for which he was first derided then admired. It was obvious that he still believed he might just win. The Tories, though exhausted, still had some of their 'big beasts' - politicians like former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine and former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke - fronting their campaign and giving it a buzz. Most important, New Labour was a reinvented party that hadn't yet fully revealed itself. Full of zest, it opened the prospect of stimulating change to Britain's tired plitical scene, fuelling the adrenalin of journalists covering the campaign...
...though Rubin's speech this year might not have the significance of the recent Commencement appearances of political figures like West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1990, Hunt says that as a result of the prominent status of Harvard alumni, the University is well positioned to attract world leaders at crucial moments if the need arises...
Admissions officers at the University of Denver will decide this week whether to admit themselves to the University of Denver. A few months ago, John Dolan, DU's vice chancellor of enrollment, asked his team to test the application process by literally applying to school. The 10 admissions officers and Dolan took the SAT and submitted their high school grades and activities. Their first conclusion: "We'd never hire anyone to work here on just a great resume," says Dolan. "We'd still want to talk to them." Inspired by the experience, Dolan, his staff and 125 alumni this fall...
...governments that currently dominate the E.U. remained on their guard. France's Socialist Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine warned that his government would be "attentive and, if necessary, vigilant" toward the new Italian administration, while Prime Minister Lionel Jospin pointedly refrained from making any declaration at all. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, issued a notably cool statement, saying his government "took note" of the Italian results and "respected the decision" of the voters. Britain's center-left Prime Minister Tony Blair was a better sport, phoning his congratulations to Berlusconi Monday night...