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...backing away from those claims; Blair has not. He outsmarted the executioner, but still has some explaining to do. Give him time. For now, Blair was grinning widely as he sped away unscathed from his near-death experience. He could see plenty of roadkill in the rearview mirror. The Conservatives' new leader, Michael Howard, had been widely praised for restoring some discipline and purpose to a party that hasn't managed to mount an effective opposition since Labour came to power in 1997. Trying to capitalize on polls showing rising distrust of Blair, Howard spent weeks suggesting the Prime Minister...
...With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased) pop culture, and from the encroaching, inevitable...
...chunky ones, if fashion forecasts are anything to go by. The thin, neat frames in gunmetal and black, so beloved over the past two years, are well past their sell-by, as are rimless models. In their place, expect lots of ovals and cat's-eyes, and even more mirror coating and patterned plastics. The classic Ray-Ban Aviator is tipped to make a big comeback, while die-hard fashionistas will flip over multilayered lenses, allowing tone-on-tone coloring. Be seen at the poolside in nothing less...
...said he believed that the results of the NHS study would mirror the results of the WHS study—indicating that only overweight and obese people would benefit from magnesium intake—if the two studies had both used the standard 25 BMI measure...
...bittersweet at best. He delivers it in a bluff, plainspoken style; one flaw in the telling is that the dialogue has a touch of that musty quality that often inhabits historical fiction. Yet Grunwald has a strong sense of his historical period--he genuinely intuits the mirror logic of the Renaissance religious mind--and his story has an emotional power that transcends it. In the present day, Grunwald asks, "Do we not still look for miracles, saints and devils, if, perhaps, by other names?" We do. And more often than not, we still find only human beings...