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...government of Major lost because of infighting. History is repeating itself. David Cameron could be what Britain needs, a confident and natural Prime Minister in the style of Tony Blair, but without the endless spin and arrogance that defined Blair's tenure as Prime Minister. Jonathan Chapman, FORKHILL, NORTHERN IRELAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron in Focus | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...Oxford. When Heaney, a Nobel laureate, took the stage, he described it as “one of the greatest moments in my life,” and although he promised the crowd nothing, he certainly performed. In her introduction, Vendler called Heaney “a poet of Ireland and of the world,” which recalled a line from his Nobel lecture: “I credit poetry...both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible a fluid and restorative relationship between the mind’s centre and its circumference...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Dazzles Sanders | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...this misogynistic ranter who evidently believes Alaskans are leeches and not real Americans. I am going to guess that he is a journalist who lives, or has lived, in Washington, D.C. Sarah has really got to those ole boys. You go, girl! B. J. O'Byrne, Meath, Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...same picture of the Holy Father could also bear traces of Bacon's anguished dealings with his own father, a truculent English army officer turned horse trainer who moved the family to Ireland, where Bacon was born in 1909. "Eddie" Bacon eventually rejected his girlish son and, if Bacon's not always reliable stories can be trusted, even had him whipped by stableboys to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Francis Bacon: Tragic Genius | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, have helped him identify a tax proposal that speaks to the underlying cause of the meltdown. Compared with most other developed countries, the U.S. has relatively high taxes on corporations that produce goods and services and relatively low taxes on consumption. "For example," McCain observed, "Ireland now has an 11% business tax. The United States of America has a 35% business tax. Where are businesses going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Lead Us Out of This Mess? | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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