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...Minister to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham palace. Though Thursday's elections put a decisive end to 18 years of Conservative rule, Labour?s direction remains unclear. Blair has spent the last two years as Labour's head promoting what he calls the New Labour Party, reversing the party's long-held opposition to privatization and promising a less confrontational approach to business. He's also pledged not to raise income taxes for the next five years. Although he?s been sketchy on the details, he has promised a new minimum wage, health care reform, and referenda on the governance...
...success of his Iliad, published six years ago, seems to him to confirm a long-held belief: "I think in this channel-surfing age people are famished for stories, for vivid accounts of humans who wrestled with their destinies and the gods. Homer is so inclusive and encyclopedic that he can relieve us of ourselves for a while." Fagles recalls a day during his long labors on the Iliad when he was standing in line at a Princeton, New Jersey, bank. "I suddenly thought, 'Don't these people know there's a war going on?'" The Trojan War, of course...
...peace process when, according to the media at least, things appeared to be on track. The answer lies in the mistaken premises upon which the "peace process" was founded and in the confused direction in which it has long been headed. Associated Press photographs of armed Palestinians firing automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them have reawakened long-held doubts about the Labor government's policies. The fact that Israel was forced to summon tanks and attack helicopters to rescue their own troops, the first time since the 1967 war that such a show of strength has been necessary...
...Republican party ranks, a member of the Wilson Administration in Sacramento preferred to blame the reporter who talked to Wilson, insisting that there was "absolutely nothing new" in today's remarks, says TIME's Jordan Bonfante. "In Sacramento, Wilson's statement was seen as a renewal of his long-held position on abortion," says Bonfante, "not as a vow to fight to lead the charge to remove the language from the GOP platform. In the past Wilson was opposed to the anti-abortion plank, but he has never tried to mount a big active campaign against it." Nevertheless, Wilson...
...Republican party ranks, a member of the Wilson Administration in Sacramento preferred to blame the reporter who talked to Wilson, insisting that there was "absolutely nothing new" in today's remarks, says TIME's Jordan Bonfante. "In Sacramento, Wilson's statement was seen as a renewal of his long-held position on abortion," says Bonfante, "not as a vow to fight to lead the charge to remove the language from the GOP platform. In the past Wilson was opposed to the anti-abortion plank, but he has never tried to mount a big active campaign against it." Nevertheless, Wilson...