Word: labors
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...writers must stand together no matter how different we are, because this is a war between labor and management, between teleprompter and teleprompted. So let’s be grateful that our chosen representatives are, unlike most writers, far too rich and stubborn to give up their strike out of poverty or despair. They have gagged America’s voice—and they have found their...
After so long in opposition, victory is a sweet but strange fruit for the Labor faithful packed into a function room at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. Between the party notching its election-winning 76th seat and the arrival on stage of Kevin Rudd, guests are occupied mostly by their own thoughts. "The polls had been good for so long . . . then came the bad ones yesterday," says silver-haired Tony Smith, a "booth captain" in Rudd's seat of Griffith. "Now it's relief...
...Earlier, nerves were palpable. While the exit polls were encouraging and the swing to Labor was on, not enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...
...evening wear but those ubiquitous "Kevin 07" T shirts. As the fare shifts from nibbles to pies and sausage rolls, so the news changes. John Howard looks cooked in his own seat of Bennelong, generating the night's first full-throated roar. Better, Queensland is delivering. Labor's black sheep in recent elections, it's going to carry its local boy to the Prime Ministership. "We're a very partisan place," says Russell Griffiths in the center of a pulsing throng...
...banner was trying to lead a chant: "Howard forever, Kevin never," oblivious to the giant screen behind him, which now read LABOR WINS. Dennis Baker, a law professor down from Queensland, nodded sadly at the message and said, "We are part of a day in history - a sorry, sorry...