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...policy reversal, Labour leader Tony Blair announced Monday that his party, long the champion of nationalization, is ditching its official opposition to privatization. "Gone are the days when Labour represented one side of industry and business found itself automatically on the other," he told business leaders at London's Corn Exchange. "There should be no dogmatic belief. What counts is what works." What's more, if Labour regains No. 10 Downing Street after the May 1 election, Blair pledged that his party will end its regular consultations with trade unions -- no small promise given the unions' role as party founder...
...right with that. Nobody who sits near me at the ballpark seems to feel personally diminished by living in a minor league city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders. We all eat the same brand of corn flakes, and one size sock fits all. However, in Minneapolis, the 42nd largest American city, there are people who imagine it to be the Manhattan of the Midwest, the Paris of the Prairie. This is embarrassing to us St. Paulites, like knowing a small man with a bad toupee who thinks...
...food laid out in the prop area before they set the table, and I just died! Come on, frozen corn? Iceberg lettuce? We're talking about the eighteenth century! But then it was fun to watch the prop guy come out and mess up the food like it had been eaten. And then once you get the distance and the camera angle, it didn't matter what was on those plates - he had the right look...
...Swimming vs. Corn./Dart...
...heartening to three disgraced executives of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. who were charged with price fixing last week. Under indictment are Michael Andreas, who is the son of chairman Dwayne Andreas and on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, who ran the company's corn-processing division; and, surprisingly, whistle blower Mark Whitacre. Although Whitacre was the mole at meetings in which price fixing was allegedly discussed, his work did not shield him from charges. It did no doubt figure in ADM's admission of guilt and payment of a $100 million penalty in October...