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...animals: class war. For generations, land-owning toffs have used foxhunting as a means to socialize among their peers and look down (literally) on the peasants below. Banning foxhunting has therefore been a dream of English class warriors for years. It taps deep veins of resentment that Blair is keen to exploit as he gears up for a spring election. Like the New Democrats, New Labourites are worried that their co-opting of many conservative themes has offered their constituency very little enticement. Sure, Blair has an easy lead in the polls, but that could vanish if turnout...
...certain to bring in new faces wherever he can. Bush would like to have his three top Texas loyalists close by in the White House: political guru Karl Rove, press attache Karen Hughes and operations chief Joe Allbaugh--if he can get him to come. (Allbaugh, who isn't keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably be Commerce Secretary. And there was talk last week of recruiting...
...irony is that Moscow is trying to build alliances to oppose the U.S., but they're not learning the lessons from Yugoslavia. There they tried to support Milosevic even though the Serb people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...
...Florida Supreme Court didn't already have its hands quite full, the Justices will undoubtedly cast worried glances over their shoulders as they consider the Gore appeal. As everyone is well aware, the country's highest court has fixed a keen eye on the Florida seven: Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a bit of a wrist-slap to its Florida colleagues, "vacating" their decision to extend a certification deadline, sending the opinion back for "clarification." And so the Florida judges are also accepting supplementary briefs from both the Bush and Gore camps arguing whether (and under what legal standards...
Harvard wrestling held its own this past weekend at the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas...