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Many of the Britons mourning Michael Foot, who died March 3 at 96, did not vote Labour when he led the party. Some had not yet reached voting age when he (right, with his wife, the author and filmmaker Jill Craigie) helmed the party's 1983 parliamentary campaign. Some had not yet been born. And a thumping majority of those who were eligible to vote chose to retain Margaret Thatcher as prime minister, after Britain's 1982 Falklands-war victory burnished her popularity...
...master of the tall order. Bruce Graham, who died March 6 at 84, designed two of the biggest, most famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story John Hancock Center was a revolution in skyscraper design. Working with Skidmore's brilliant engineer Fazlur Khan, Graham conceived a tapering tower with an exterior system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its façade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with...
...latest attempt to win over congressional naysayers and push his signature policy initiative over the finish line, President Obama took to the stump March 8 to tout the Democrats' proposed health care overhaul with some of his signature "Yes, we can" fire. "They've argued now is not the time for reform," he said of his critics, slamming analysts who say a push for health care could come at the expense of the Democratic majority in the November elections. "My question to them is: When is the right time? If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama also...
...days after agreeing to indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority through U.S. envoy George Mitchell, Israel announced on March 9 the approval of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, whose five-day visit to the region makes him the highest-level member of the Obama Administration to visit Israel to date, condemned the plan, saying that it "undermines the trust" needed for negotiations to proceed after a 14-month deadlock...
Colleen LaRose, an American citizen from Pennsylvania who went by the online handle Jihad Jane, was indicted on March 9 for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammad had angered Muslims. LaRose, 46, had been in custody since October. Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris said the suspect's being a suburban American woman "underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face...