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...however, Thatcher will concentrate on what she sees as her main task: transforming the nation's economy and attitude toward work. She is fond of calling for a return to "Victorian values," by which she means the virtues of thrift and self-reliance, hard work and sense of duty. (In an inspired bit of parody, the liberal New Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich...
Fear of herpes obviously prods the trend along but explains the new caution only in part. In 1980, when herpes was just beginning to impinge on the nation's consciousness, a Cosmopolitan survey found that "so many readers wrote negatively about the sexual revolution, expressing longings for vanished intimacy and the now elusive joys of romance and commitment, that we began to sense that there might be a sexual counterrevolution under way in America." Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, never one to miss a sexual trend, says, "Sex with commitment is absolutely delicious. Sex with your date for the evening...
...problem in gauging the nation's sexual temper is that those in charge of the effort seem to know very little about what is really going on. On the subject of the sexual revolution, the specialists divide into three categories: the experts who think the revolution has ended, those who insist that it is still continuing, and a small group who say it never existed at all. In the last faction is John Gagnon, a sociologist who says the idea of a sexually permissive society was basically a construct of American journalism...
...Sarkozy in November that such violence "can not remain unpunished." But on Monday Sarkozy's political rivals questioned whether the real objective of the busts wasn't instead to stage a diversion to the President's plunging approval ratings with a bit of heart-stirring crime fighting for the nation's media to lap up. Such high-profile law-and-order activity, Sarkozy's detractors allege, might also help limit losses the right is expected to suffer should voters use nationwide municipal elections next month to express dismay with the national leadership of Sarkozy and his ruling majority...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...