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...printed topless photos of Cherie's confidante Carole Caplin on the day of a key Blair speech). The Blairs struggled to protect the privacy of their family life and once got an injunction to prevent a former nanny from penning a memoir. "Goodbye. I don't think we'll miss you," Cherie told the waiting press corps as the Blairs said farewell to Downing Street last June. Now, by publishing her autobiography, she's invited fresh and closer scrutiny. She took the risk, says the source, because she wanted "to tell her version of the reality behind the many myths...
...trade plan McCain would initially give away most of the permits to emit carbon to industries, rather than auctioning them off, as Obama and Clinton would. (This means that under McCain's plan, carbon prices are likely to be lower than under the Democrats - and he'll miss out on the revenue created by an auction system, though McCain says that he'll gradually phase out the permit giveaway.) And McCain is, ultimately, a Republican - he said little about the role that government spending could play in advancing alternative energy, or regulating better energy efficiency. His tack is all free...
...Kyoto isn't working. As the European Commission itself admits, western Europe is likely to miss its Kyoto targets. So is Japan. Carbon trading is widely acknowledged as a failure. The first phase of the E.U.'s Emission Trading Scheme did not produce either a workable market in carbon or reduced emissions. Global warming has become a new religion, with the Kyoto Protocol as one of its articles of faith. The idea that we can control a global climate governed by a billion factors by dickering with a couple of politically selected gases is carbon claptrap. Leon Wilbanks, Salem, Oregon...
...told the religious leaders who, during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan last fall, petitioned broadcasters to delay Tulsi, in order to accommodate evening prayers. It wasn't just that the Mullahs were losing their flock to an Indian temptress; some made clear that they didn't want to miss an episode themselves...
...taste for those playing their last game in crimson, Tillman suggested that the graduating class will still be a part of the team.“[These seniors] are a group Harvard can be really proud of,” Tillman said. “We’ll miss their personalities in the locker room, but I know they’ll stay close to the program. We’re a family in terms of how we do things, and I think they’ll never be too far away.”—Staff...