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When Tony Blair was elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
...unfortunately true that, as forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye said, "we glorify and revere" killers. But in response to his doubts about people recalling Ted Bundy's victims, those of us who were at Florida State University in the late '70s have not forgotten Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Likewise, I doubt that those who survived that day at Virginia Tech will forget their classmates and teachers. It is the media that keep the killers' names alive while those who were there and those who care remember the victims...
...seems that getting a great alias is all about timing. Take Christopher T. Chen ’10, for example, who miraculously claimed “Chen@fas.” But cases like his are few and far between, and some addresses end up as slightly embarrassing. Margaret M. Wang ’09 chose “Mmwang.” Wang insists she meant it to be a joke. When asked what their ideal e-mail aliases would be, both Zhao (2) and (mm)Wang said they would have used their full names. “Each...
...Secretary of Education, Margaret Spelling, is continuing with her push, backed by the bipartisan Commission on the Future of Education, to require colleges to evaluate how much students learn in college and publish the results of these tests in the public domain...
...beginning to sound alarms about the weather's role in warmaking. On April 16, 11 former U.S. admirals and generals published a report for the think tank CNA Corporation that described climate change as a "threat multiplier" in volatile parts of the world. The next day, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett hosted the first-ever debate on climate change and armed conflict at the U.N. Security Council. "What makes wars start?" asked Beckett. "Fights over water. Changing patterns of rainfall. Fights over food production, land use. There are few greater potential threats to our economies too ... but also to peace...