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...with no British general election mandated for two more years, Cameron has little say about whether it's time for Brown to go. The Prime Minister's more immediate threat is from restless Labourites keen to vault the party out of the hapless political rut it has inhabited since Brown decided not to call snap elections last fall...
...would not be doing what I do today if not for two encounters I never would have sought out on my own. After my freshman year in college, I interned in the sports department of the CBS affiliate in Atlanta and spent my days taking notes on the then hapless Braves' baseball games. One day news from Tiananmen Square suddenly interrupted the CBS feed. Chinese soldiers mauled students and then lunged toward the CBS cameraman filming the scene. I sat looking at my clipboard, wondering what on earth I was doing with my life. Three years later...
...gracious host would throw the match, but Fukuda might want to think twice before dropping his paddle: a display of national athletic prowess against an old rival might be just the tonic he needs to revive his moribund prime ministership. Since taking over from the hapless administration of Shinzo Abe in September 2007, Fukuda's team has managed to look even more inept and out of touch than Abe's on issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled...
...Gaian vision is worse than a fanciful environmentalist dream; it is also a way to lay blame in the lap of others. Unsurprisingly, Jensen’s favorite bête noire is “the corporations.” In his world, corporations aren’t just hapless profit-making machines linked up to an established social structure; they stand in for Satan’s armies committed to evil for evil’s sake. He talks convincingly of the futility of acting through government, but ruins the point with an unremitting focus on the extremes...
...audience whooped. I chewed nervously on the end of my pen. I was there for the art. First on the program was the World Famous *BOB*, a burlesque dancer whose legendary breasts have been featured in books, films, and television series. She warmed up with the story of her hapless career as a dominatrix, explaining that every time the person paying her screamed, she would drop the whip and ask them, “Are you okay?” Her comic timing was impeccable, and the audience couldn’t stop laughing. Then, suddenly, her clothes were gone...