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...most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After a decade of trailing Labour in the polls, the Tories are now up 8 points. It will probably be three more years before Cameron goes head-to-head with Blair's replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just...
This time last year, I was falling asleep to the sound of late chattering in the Yard, coming from scattered puddles of freshmen evidently not as tired as I was. Obsessively, I reproached myself for not being there, eagerly collecting more, newer acquaintances. The crucial piece of advice for such a tumultuous time, one I cannot take credit for, is to engrave into your skull, and schedule, the impossibility of attending every presentation, speech, tour, and event...
...genial ex?mail carrier and union leader now running education, is a bit more popular, and M.P.s praying for anyone-but-Brown are leaning toward him as their best hope. (He's a 6-to-1 underdog, but his odds are the best of the second tier.) The most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After...
...case, the Democrats are now playing offense on Iraq. The home page of Diane Farrell, a Democrat seeking to unseat Representative Christopher Shays in Connecticut, features a calculator for the cost of the war in Iraq that updates second by second--$313 billion and counting. In a crucial seat in New Mexico, challenger Patricia Madrid bought a TV ad chiding the incumbent, "Heather Wilson is on the Intelligence Committee, but she never questioned George Bush on the war--and she never said a word about how we've spent $300 billion there...
Still, we find it alarming that a country that is so prosperous, free and secure shows such serious signs of weakness in its civic infrastructure, especially at a time when it most needs that strength. The growing polarization of its politics has made compromise and unity on crucial matters far more difficult. Indeed, people's trust in others has declined even as their voting has climbed, suggesting that they're using the ballot to protect personal interests rather than out of a sense of shared responsibility. Americans are keenly aware of the fissures in society. Our surveys find that...