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...Strauss seemed to show little interest in practicing law. After a honeymoon in Africa while his classmates took the bar exam, Strauss moved to Washington with his new wife to begin work as a policy aide before becoming a staffer for former Illinois senator Charles H. Percy...
...respite in Belgium's governmental crisis. The interim cabinet means that the clock stopped on 194 days without a new Belgian government, only a couple of weeks short of the European record of 208, set by the Netherlands in 1977. But there won't be any time for a honeymoon period: no sooner had the coalition formed than 14 people were arrested after authorities foiled a plot to free an al-Qaeda suspect arrested in September 2001. "They were planning to use weapons and explosives to free him ... These means could be employed for another use", confirmed the federal prosecutor...
Labour needs money. Income from dues has tailed off as membership has fallen from a modern peak of more than 400,000 in 1997 to 177,000 last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts...
...Jewish lobby" in France. Far from denouncing the comment - or firing the official - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika merely told Sarkozy during a phone call Thursday that the view did "not reflect anything of Algeria's position". That chilly sign from abroad is yet another indication that Sarkozy's early honeymoon in power is definitely over - and he'll have to start emphatically putting his own "work more" motto into action...
...Violet Bick. But isn't there something a little oppressive about it? To me, a former small-town kid, it's a tragedy, about a man whose dreams are beaten down by his needy, parochial, busybody neighbors. I want to yell at the screen, "You go on that honeymoon, George Bailey! Tell that cabdriver to floor it and never look back...