Word: margarete
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...world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants, the national theater and the employers' federation (see Leading Ladies). With all that - plus an abiding conceit that it epitomizes the avant-garde - France should have been among the first countries to see a woman in its highest political office. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of Britain in 1979, Gro Harlem Brundtland served three terms in Norway from 1981. Germany's glass ceiling was smashed last year with the election of Angela Merkel. India has had a woman leader, as have Bangladesh, New Zealand, Israel and Chile - why not France? Because...
...most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After a decade of trailing Labour in the polls, the Tories are now up 8 points. It will probably be three more years before Cameron goes head-to-head with Blair's replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just...
...Margaret Engel, managing editor of the Newseum, an Arlington, Va.-based interactive news museum said there are more important things to consider, like images that seemingly cast a divide between black and white survivors. Two in particular were now-infamous captions placed with Agence France-Presse and Associated Press photos. The AFP photo caption described two whites as "finding" food, while the AP caption described a black youth as "looting" a store...
...plans to enlarge the scope of veterans' health care--much less consider it a model for, say, a government-run system serving nonvets. But it's becoming more and more "ideologically inconvenient for some to have such a stellar health-delivery system being run by the government," says Margaret O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which rates health plans for businesses and individuals. If VA health care continues to be the industry leader, it may become more difficult to argue that the market can do better...
...care and education. Her chief strategist has a grim assessment of what Hillary is up against on that front. The country may be ready for a woman President, Bill has privately told friends, but the first one to make it is more likely to be a Republican in the Margaret Thatcher mold...