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...Well, he has a 20-point lead in the polls. There?s no real contest here. Labor kept that lead even through the foot and mouth crisis. (Conservative Party leader) William Hague does not impress voters - even a substantial number of Tories believe Blair would make a better leader. And the newspapers have been full of leaked stories about Tory infighting over who will replace Hague as party leader when he loses the election. The party has also suffered damage in a public row over racist comments by a retiring member of parliament which the party did not repudiate quickly...
...other activities or initiatives-focused committees. Requiring first-years to serve on the committee not only ensures a certain number of bodies to make postering runs and the such, but it also gives those first-years a chance to cut their teeth on council business and impress the higher-ups. That is to say, there’s a built-in incentive for these reps to do a good job, as future positions within the council may depend...
...music show on TV knows what he means, but the condescending tone quickly becomes grating. And in fact there was something tragic about the Japanese attempts to be "civilized"; for the harder they tried, the more ridiculous they seemed in the eyes of many of those they sought to impress. It also earned Japan an unfair reputation of being a nation of kitschy copycats. This left a lot of bruised feelings...
...eminent writer Tanizaki Junichiro argued in those years of intense nationalism that foreign loan words, mostly from Chinese, should be purged from the Japanese language. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, such popular American cultural products as baseball and Hollywood movies were forbidden. This policy was not designed to impress foreign views of Japan, but was in line with official propaganda, touted all over the Japanese empire, that the Japanese spirit and Japanese culture were superior to anything the West might have to offer. It was the ultimate reaction to earlier efforts to import Western civilization...
Lest you think Calkins is a complete nerd, he's anything but. He fully realizes that Gibson, with his perky antenna-like tail and endearingly clunky legs, can be a chick magnet. If that doesn't impress, Calkins will sweep back his bleach-blond hair and rattle off the weekend's coolest parties in northern California. Still, Calkins isn't just content teaching his techno-pooch frat-boy tricks like kicking a ball or rolling over. He's into exploring Gibson's inner qualities: Calkins has backward-engineered his pet, methodically investigating his dog's software to see exactly what...