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LONDON: Facing the biggest Tory defeat since the fall of Winston Churchill in 1945, Prime Minister John Major pleaded with voters Wednesday to give the Conservatives another chance. "Eighteen years is a long time,? he told one rally, ?and it's easy to overlook achievements.? But after years of bitter infighting among Conservatives, he can?t count on an 11th-hour rescue. "Brits don't elect divided parties," says TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Labour leader Tony Blair was low-key in last minute campaigning. "I ask for your vote because I believe in this country...
Quite a mess. But no longer perhaps a complete surprise. Eighteen years after Jonestown, suicide cults have entered the category of horrors that no longer qualify as shocks. Like plane crashes and terrorist attacks, they course roughly for a while along the nervous system, then settle into that part of the brain reserved for bad but familiar news. As the bodies are tagged and the families contacted, we know what the experts will say before they say it. That in times of upheaval and uncertainty, people seek out leaders with power and charisma. That the established churches are too fainthearted...
...Eighteen is an age limit for the state and so I haven't gone to clubs and things [while] people I know have been going for a while," he says. "I'll probably go once I'm old enough...
Harvard came out blazing in the first half. With just over eighteen minutes remaining in the first half, its prized weapon, Collins, scored on a penalty corner from junior back Beck Springer...
Change is stealing into all the desert kingdoms of the Persian Gulf, but nowhere else has it proved as beneficial--though fraught with palace intrigue--as in tiny, thumb-shaped Qatar (pop. 500,000). Eighteen months ago, Hamad, trained at Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, was merely an heir apparent. Then he staged a bloodless coup that ended the 23-year reign of his father Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, 64, who had developed an unseemly fondness for liquor and opulent palaces. Since then, Qataris have witnessed one of the bitterest Arabian family spats in memory, involving cash...