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...disheartening was news in January that the first person convicted under British laws targeting the preparation of terrorist acts was Sohail Qureshi, a 29-year-old dentist from London. That followed the arrest in Britain last summer of three doctors and an engineer on suspicion of attempting to strike Glasgow's airport with a car containing propane-gas canisters. This has challenged the stereotype of jihadis as disenfranchised madrasah students, presenting Europe with a troubling question: Why would those who have made a success of their professional lives be drawn to violent extremism...
Competence - that was Prime Minister Brown's unique selling point. He reacted calmly to the June terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and to the August outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, followed a month later by the bluetongue virus afflicting livestock. He cheered many in his own party by signaling a new distance from the Bush Administration, while reaffirming his Atlanticist credentials. By the time he delivered a workmanlike speech to Labour's annual congress in September, doubts about his abilities had been assuaged...
...being kept afloat by guarantees from the Bank of England. Brown has defended his government's handling of the affair, and says his response to diverse challenges in the first months after he took office prove his competence. He looked calm and in control after terrorists targeted London and Glasgow in July and when an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was followed in September by the first case of bluetongue virus affecting U.K. livestock...
...derby match, the play is hapless. But it is roared on in an atmosphere of intensity and passion unparalleled anywhere else in Asia. The enmity between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, the teams respectively of the city's West and East Bengali populations, mirrors the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow's Celtic versus Rangers. It stretches back before Indian independence and is embedded into the very fabric of Kolkata society. Prices for prawn and hilsa, the preferred seafood of each community, fluctuate depending on the results of the clubs' matches. An entire canon of Bengali films, plays and poems surrounds...
Recent opinion polls have allayed those concerns. Labour's standing has been boosted by Brown's competent handling of terror attacks in London and Glasgow and an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The Prime Minister's stolidity, perceived only a few months ago as weakness, now reads like strength. "Not flash, just Gordon," runs Labour's latest slogan. In his convention speech - a doggedly uninspiring hour-long sermon bracketed by emotional ovations and punctuated by endearing verbal stumbles - Brown played up to his new image. "People say I am too serious and I fight too hard and maybe that...