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...worry some swing voters but not enough for them to vote Tory. The Blair years, says David Curry, an M.P. from one of the party's rare northern seats, have turned the Conservative Party "into a combination of existential musing and ancestor worship." The pols in Blackpool devoted much earnest attention to plotting a new path. Senior figures were asked to suggest a dramatic "Clause Four" moment, recalling the big boost Labour received in 1995 when Tony Blair arm-twisted his party into renouncing its historic commitment to public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy. Among the suggestions...
Maybe in this dark time, we need an earnest liberal fairy tale to remind us of our better, more tolerant selves. But there is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass...
Already months in the making, an on-campus pub catering to undergraduates is slated to open next fall. And as planning begins in earnest, broad ideas are emerging about the shape and scope of Harvard’s latest answer to improving social life for its undergraduates...
Despite its awkward allusions to Scientology’s Hollywood denizens, Jeff’s question is entirely in earnest. He says that whatever I want to do, Scientology will help...
...wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it). Publishers like Arthur A. Levine Books (of Harry Potter fame) and the children's division at Simon & Schuster have released something like a dozen novels about gay adolescents in the past two years. New, achingly earnest books like Rainbow Road (Simon & Schuster), in which three gay teens take a road trip, are coming this month. Gay kids can subscribe to the 10-month-old glossy YGA Magazine (YGA stands for "young gay America") and meet thousands of other little gays via young gay america...