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...limo, two journeys. politics throws up all sorts of questions: about competing needs and interests, about motives and results, even about the sanity of its practitioners. But Tony Blair's handover of the British premiership to Gordon Brown, a transition long anticipated and heavily choreographed, unexpectedly raised the one kind of question that never finds its way onto a parliamentary order paper: a metaphysical poser. How can power - granted by voters, defined by laws, enjoyed and exercised for 10 years - slip away so easily, almost as if it had never existed? The question hovered above a grizzled Prime Minister Blair...
...photographers have been balancing on stepladders and defending their turf in uncertain weather for two days now, but still those encamped outside 10 Downing Street are cheerful. Not only are their editors hungry for images depicting the new government Gordon Brown promises to unveil in full in the next 24 hours, but the first and most prominent Cabinet appointment has provided them with a gag that, for the lensmen at least, has yet to wear thin. "Hello Darling!" they chorus raucously, as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his way past the press...
Britain's political landscape is being transformed, its personnel, style and structures thoroughly revamped. Its two biggest beasts are changing their spots. Gordon Brown promises to be more open and relaxed than in his incarnation as the brilliant but grumpy Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rumors that Tony Blair will soon announce his conversion to Catholicism continue despite a difficult meeting with the Pope on the weekend. But what might any personal metamorphoses mean for the world? How will Prime Minister Brown deliver the change that has already emerged as the theme and buzzword of his premiership, cropping up 30 times...
...longer on the schedule for tomorrow," White House National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said late Thursday. "Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future...
...thing that might trip up the entire Lifesharers concept is that the idea behind it--fairness--can also argue against it. Elisa Gordon, a bioethics professor at Albany Medical College in New York State, notes that socioeconomics and health are linked, and some poor people may never be healthy enough to qualify as donors. "No other patients seeking medical treatment are required to give back anything beyond money for the costs of treatment," Gordon says...