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...election year. So much so, in fact, that the factions that traditionally provide the ideological dynamite for Labor's creative self-destruction have taken a pause: it's the Mark Latham show. As a political act that veers from somber to slapstick, earthy to edgy, the new leader could fill all the channels on a satellite television network with his mix of messages. So, on the eve of an election where victory is not beyond its grasp, the key to understanding what a Labor government would do - and how it would change Australia - is Latham: his family, character and style...
...Presumably it is some number between five and the number of people required to fill the Coliseum,” Scalia joked...
...polling stations, voters will be asked to choose a political party rather than an individual. The election will be run on a proportional-representation list system - each party contesting the election offers a list of candidates to fill the number of seats proportional to the share of the popular vote it wins. A party that earns 25 percent of the overall vote, for example, would be allocated 69 seats in the 275-member assembly, to be filled by the first 69 candidates on its electoral list. They'll also be invited to elect provincial assemblies on the same basis...
...because for perhaps ten years we will be single, mobile, adrift, Harvard is for many of us a of port of call where we prepare for our departure. Every year, we acquire more trappings of a home and fill our rooms with them; every year, there are more boxes to carry from storage. Every year, we become closer to the people we live with, reproducing in small ways the rituals of the families we’ve left. We eat together. We play board games. We congratulate each other extravagantly on minor successes. We have our own jokes and nicknames...
...rooms, a kitchen and a large marble bathroom, plus access to the guesthouse's funky art collection. Scattered throughout the 19th century mansion are contemporary works by the likes of American Spencer Tunick and Italians Franco Angeli and Mario Consiglio, which make a nice counterpoint to the classics that fill most of the city's other galleries. Nestled on a landing is Maurizio Cannavacciuolo's sculpture of an Egyptian mummy, but my favorite is a statuette of Star Wars' Yoda wearing a Pope's miter by Australia-born Adrian Tranquilli. (Go to www.residencebarberini.com to preview some of the artwork...