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...favor, but a more recent ICM poll showed the public split 39% to 39% when presented with the exact wording of the referendum. Yet the same sample said they would ditch the constitution, 54% to 26%, if they had to vote tomorrow. Those numbers make both sides nervous. The British public is "more skeptical and hostile than they have ever been to Europe," according to Dominic Cummings, a former anti-euro campaigner who now runs the New Frontiers Foundation think tank. Yet given the right constellation of events, Cummings thinks Blair might just pull it off. If the opposition Conservatives...
...Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham seemed reluctant to begin reading her newest work before an audience of scholars, students, and Cantabrigians last Friday night in the Adams House Common Room. Although she is one of Harvard’s foremost poets, the esteemed writer appeared nervous, slightly fidgety and out of breath, explained as a result of the presence of many colleagues and friends. While clutching her necklace, she dove headlong into reading six poems of her intensely personal and most recent book, Overlord...
...fastest rate in almost three decades. And most observers predict that growth in 2005 will continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than on what's wrong--and how serious...
...police that the two suspects were a “chubby” 5’7’’ tall Asian male and a 5’8’’ tall white male, both of whom appeared to be “very nervous...
...Those nervous at spats between China and Japan have one prayer: that the U.S., which has close relationships with both nations-and is the guarantor of Taiwan's security-will continue to hug Asia's powers in a comforting embrace. Few things so exercise gabfests on the future of Asia as the fear that the U.S., absorbed by the Islamic world and a desire to rebuild its relations with Europe, spends too little time thinking about the region. For an Asia left to its own devices, where China and Japan are allowed to intensify their rivalry without Washington spreading...