Word: libs
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...Wednesday, a couple of my roommates and I braved a noreaster to visit all of the House libraries in an expedition we variously called a library safari and a lib crawl, packing, as provisions, a bottle of rum. It had been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed...
...After a high-level meeting, the party's guns swiveled from the Conservatives to target the Lib Dems. Campaign workers were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters...
...fact, the first person to announce his departure from politics after the election was Michael Howard, the Conservative leader. The Tories gained 33 seats, but are so far from their glory days under Margaret Thatcher that their share of the popular vote was no greater than in 2001. The Lib Dems had their best results since the 1920s, picking up 11 seats, mostly from Labour - but had hoped for more...
...according to MORI, half the public would prefer Blair to leave this minute. Penn, who helped Bill Clinton come back from several major reversals, thinks Blair has plenty of juice left. "We successfully beat back the Tory appeal to their base, and we lost 2.5% on Iraq to the Lib Dems as a protest vote. This isn't Lyndon Johnson swept away by the Vietnam War. I think the protest is temporary. Blair has an opportunity to heal things and renew his leadership...
...tampon jokes only reinforce the girl-power theme. It avoids having a saccharine message on the importance of female “friendship” or overtly sexual comedy and stays cute by never taking itself too seriously. Rather than being like Waiting to Exhale women’s-lib drudge, it more closely resembles a male buddy comedy like Bad Boys. Except that instead of excess violence there’s just a whole lot of Vuitton...