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...over the options. All that remained was for Brown to summon an official limo to take the short drive from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace where he would ask the Queen to dissolve parliament. He was expected to do so on Oct. 9 to set up an election for Nov...
There may be a Nov. 1 election, but not this year or even in 2008, according to Brown. In an Oct. 6 interview with the BBC, the Prime Minister ruled out a fall poll, adding "I think it's very unlikely that [an election] will happen in the next period. I think the important thing is that we get on with the business of change in this country because people do want change and I'm responding to that demand...
...From Nov. 15-18, a 900-strong media corps and some 260 competitors will swarm upon China's gaming capital for the 54th Macau Grand Prix. The organizers would probably have to buy solar panels for half of Mongolia to offset the emissions of this orgy of gas-guzzling, but why muse on such deflating topics when there are eight fierce races to behold? This is the only street meet in the world that features both car races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand...
...This is the strangest sight I have ever seen," said the pilot of the spotter plane. It was Nov. 1, 1950, and he was looking at two divisions of Chinese infantry where none should have been, advancing under heavy shelling as if in a light rain. It was perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after...
...Dillon Panthers say before each game, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 72%“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” (Cartoon Network)Sundays, 11:45 p.m.Season Two Premiere: Nov. 18It’s highly unlikely that you’ve even heard of this show, much less seen its astonishing 11-minute capsules of neo-Futurism. Beyond the vague term of “sketch comedy,” this brainchild of “Tom Goes to the Mayor?...