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...better with a younger, more charismatic man at the helm (LibDem leader Sir Menzies "Ming" Campbell is 66). Yet youth and charisma have not enabled Tory leader David Cameron, 41, to unite his fractious party. Traditionalists are outraged by his efforts to rebrand the Conservatives as a more caring, green-tinged party. The Tory conference, which starts on Sept. 30 in Blackpool, a resort in northern England, promises the internecine warfare so conspicuously absent at Labour's jamboree...
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Bill Clinton was on the White House putting green on a sunny July day in 1995 when he and his advisers decided to consider military intervention in the Balkans in the midst of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Then it would have been the unlikeliest of scenarios, but today parts of the Balkans--that powder keg of Europe--are on the verge of a golfing boom. At KPMG's Golf Business Forum in Budapest in May, Croatia attracted attention from big-name developers. Montenegro is also generating interest. And while Serbia and Bosnia are unlikely to attract foreign golfers...
Most remarkable, though, was the odd humility that marked our space enterprise. Yes, in the historical mirror, some of it seems overdone: the astronauts in silver space suits (when military green would have served just as well), shedding names like Virgil and Donald and Gordon for Gus and Deke and Gordo. But that was done with a cultural wink, one that belied the workmanlike ethos beneath the effort...
Councillor Marjorie Decker said that though she has long supported the protection of open land, building more affordable housing will mean either less green space or denser constructions—something that many Cambridge residents, particularly in the eastern part of the city where the debate was held, have opposed...