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British M.P. and former Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson has a lot of enemies, but he has one very old and dear friend: Prime Minister Tony Blair, who last week named him the U.K.'s representative on the European Commission. Of Mandelson's talents and aptitude for the job there is little doubt. He is one of the Labour Party's most passionate pro-Europeans and a principal architect of the party's 1980s makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable centrist vote-getting machine it became under Blair. But he is also Machiavellian and polarizing...
...Many of the posters trumpet Kim Jong Il's "Army First" propaganda that touts the military not only as a fighting force but as a model of devotion and discipline. (Not coincidentally, it is also a key power base for the Dear Leader.) In one poster, a rifle-toting soldier leads a miner, a steelworker, a farmer and a scientist, urging, "Behind the Army First Flag, Forward March!" The backgrounds of posters like this typically feature icons of North Korean modernity-missiles, smokestacks, construction sites, dams, electricity towers, desktop computers and walkie-talkies, which seem to possess the kind...
...been in conclave ever since 2. aclock yesterday. 25. balots have been taken at intervals of from half an hour to an hour. They were invariably 8. 6. & 2. divided. I can venture nothing more by the post but my affectionate salutations, to yourself & my dear Martha...
...Dear Michael Steinhardt...
...Spain had ever experienced. The same trains that I had taken every day to school for four months during the fall semester now lay in a tangled mess strewn across the platforms of suburban rail stations and along the narrow tracks on their approach to the Atocha train station. Dear friends, many of whom shared the daily commute with me, remained an ocean away, out of direct contact. Luckily no one I knew was hurt...