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Politicians often succumb to the constant pressure for a stirring personal anecdote. During his abortive run for the presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...November, one of her meetings was kept private. Along with a delegation of top American officials, she spent a Saturday at Chequers, the country retreat of British Prime Ministers. Sitting around a conference table with TONY BLAIR and his political brain trust, they worked together on ways for "New Labour and New Democrats to develop policies in a complementary way that are a model for other center-left parties around the world," says Peter Mandelson, the media guru who has helped shape Blair's image...
...central assumption was that both the Democrats and Labour must shed their image of big-spending liberalism. "Center-left parties today should be the parties of fiscal prudence," says Blair. Each side worked on ideas for welfare-to-work programs, tough anticrime measures, national standards for education and a commitment to free trade. They also discussed a philosophy of community that tempered the coldness of capitalism as well as the need to promote a civic society where individual rights carry social responsibilities. The alliance harks back to the conservative one shared by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. But Clinton...
...people of the province, Protestant and Catholic alike, have come to hate the war of hate and are demanding peace. Second, the terrorists have come to believe they can win more from talking than from killing. And finally, the huge parliamentary majority rolled up by Tony Blair and the Labour Party has stripped the recalcitrant Unionists of their veto over the efforts of the British government to change the status of its troubled province...
...looking to both their future King and the current head of government to draw the country into the modern era while finding a way to keep the kingdom united. In fact, this was a process that began well before the princess's death. Tony Blair campaigned as "new" Labour, and as a Minister puts it, "Modernize is one of Tony's favorite words." Having transformed the old-line left into a party of personal responsibility and community spirit, speaking the language of healing, empowerment and openness, he was ready to apply the same process to the monarchy...