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...Liberal Party proved short-lived, and the government eventually fell to a no-confidence motion. Britain's third party now has a longer name - the Liberal Democrats - and hopes to exert a more enduring influence on any new administration. Smaller parties will flex their muscles if there's a hung Parliament. This raises the specter of political instability, gridlock and even a second general election within the year. Such an outcome could only exacerbate the economic turbulence that has contributed to the recent roller-coaster ride of the British pound. After a recent poll showed Labour and Conservatives running neck...
...dance front and center. The ballet-like triple axels of Olympic figure skaters drew huge ratings at the Winter Games. And TV hits like Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance have given ballroom dancing a cachet it hasn't had since Fred Astaire hung...
...Polls suggest that Britons may return a hung parliament, but whoever Downing Street's next incumbent proves to be, he's likely to encounter in Washington a bracing lack of sentimentality toward London. David Manning, a former British ambassador to the U.S., told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that President Obama "comes with a very different perspective. He is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia and who had a Kenyan father. The sentimental reflexes, if you like, are not there." The committee concluded - and many observers of U.S.-U.K. relations agree...
...rally, Obama met with McChrystal and Eikenberry. This was followed by a visit to the base hospital where the President met with the wounded. That was followed by a tour of a mess hall, where the President worked the room as Michigan State played Tennessee on the television screens hung around the walls. (Before Obama entered, White House aides had the channel changed on the television, from a motorcross event to the NCAA tournament.) "Let your families back home know that we know they are going through some sacrifices too," Obama said as he left the mess hall...
After the driver hung his hands out the open window, Ellison—short, sprightly, and still in his 20s—approached the vehicle...