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...members who were outraged that the soldiers wouldn't be home for Christmas as planned - Prime Minister Tony Blair had an ugly fight on his hands. Only 40% of British people now think the Iraq war was justified, and to many M.P.s, including previously loyal members of Blair's Labour Party, this additional accommodation to Washington was a bridge too far. In Parliament and in the newspapers, questions rained down: If the U.S. has 138,000 troops in Iraq, why does it need this small number of Brits, who already have their hands full around Basra? Were the Americans going...
TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, in a speech to members of his Labour Party in Brighton...
...vote, then true democracy is not practiced even in the U.S. or Britain. Democracy in U.S. presidential elections stops at the level of the Electoral College, which is empowered to make the final decision. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was put into his present position by members of the Labour Party. Economic affluence is what we people of Hong Kong want, as do the many multinational companies and expatriates working in the region. Our fear is that inexperienced lawmakers in keen pursuit of high ideals may overlook the economic issues facing the city. Cynthia Szeto Hong Kong...
...average more than 12% of their revenues each year to creditors from the developed world. Loan repayments often exceed spending on health care and education, and governments continue to sink deeper in debt simply by paying interest on their loans. Last week Bono was at Britain's Labour Party conference in Brighton, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown pledged $180 million a year to the cause for the next 10 years. Bono said that reducing Africa's burdens "is not just heart; it's smart." In Washington last week, Finance Ministers from the G-7 nations met to discuss...
...dinnertime, still planning to fly to Africa for a conference this week, and facing a better than 90% chance that his irregular rhythm won't recur. But Blair's encounter with the doctors is like the other good news he's been getting lately: mixed at best. His Labour Party won an important by-election last week (he cannily announced his trip to the hospital as the polls closed), driving the opposition Conservatives into a miserable fourth place behind the Liberal Democrats and the U.K. Independence Party, but still suffering a big drop in its own votes compared...