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...ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma, and was aided by voter discontent over incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden party. Harper's government is expected to improve relations with the U.S., but will need help from the political opposition to pass legislation because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority...
ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, economist and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper, with his wife and children on election night, above, moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma. He made ethics in government a plank in his platform, capitalizing on voter exhaustion with incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden Liberals. But because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority, Harper's government, which is expected...
...mass-transit passes. Harper has vowed to revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, which is now legal in Canada, by putting it to a vote in Parliament, but he has promised not to touch abortion rights. And he has worked hard to recast his cold and humorless image, though he admitted during a televised debate last week that "my strengths are not spin or passion...
...mythos of Christ’s resurrection. The film teeters on the fine line between feel-good family fare and a heavy-handed appeal to religious America. And unlike the text, in which Lewis deftly blends morality with witty narrative and dynamic character descriptions, the film is virtually humorless and Swinton’s oddly androgynous face far too static. Adamson, the directorial mind behind “Shrek” and “Shrek 2,” is unable to carry over the wholesome, multigenerational fun of these films to “Narnia...
Still, it would be misleading to caricature Fitzgerald as a humorless social misfit. It's true that he lacks certain domestic skills; for years, he famously piled reams of papers on the nonworking stove in his New York apartment. But he was also the one called on to roast departing colleagues and could always be counted on to join raucous beer drinking after a game of rugby or baseball...