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With Labour's leadership in hand, Blair began borrowing from abroad. The shift toward the center by left-leaning political parties is a worldwide phenomenon, and Blair has gone to school primarily on the examples offered in Australia and the U.S., both of which he has visited and whose centrist politicians he knows well. In Australia, Blair was charmed by Robert Hawke, who had said when he was Prime Minister that "you have to be an idiot or just plain blind with prejudice not to understand that you've got to have a healthy and growing private sector...
Unquestionably, people who take a narcotic for a long period will become physically dependent on the drug. But researchers have learned that dependence is not the same biological phenomenon as addiction. Most patients don't become addicts that easily, perhaps because they lack the addictive body chemistry, perhaps because they take the drugs in a social setting different from that of illicit users. "When addicts use drugs, they become less functional, more isolated, and they move away from the mainstream," says Dr. Richard Patt of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Houston. "When pain patients use drugs, they become more...
...Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Indy staffers seek to explain this disturbing result by suggesting that "the lack of female professors at Harvard offered fewer choices, or that standards for sexiness differ by gender." We at Dartboard would like to suggest some alternative explanations, less rooted in deep sociological phenomenon. First, perhaps Martin Feldstein is just really darn sexy. Or, maybe most female professors are just plain ugly...
...stereotypes and ethnic slurs that are often unarticulated in polite conversation. The comments of the late sportscaster Jimmy the Greek, expressing a bizarre attempt to link the institution of slavery to the prowess and accomplishments of African-American athletes, provide one of the more infamous examples of this phenomenon. Several months ago, this trend continued as New Jersey Nets coach John Calipari was fined by the NBA for referring to a reporter as a "Mexican idiot...
...asked a few of the more musically oriented of my friends about the phenomenon, and they all agree the homogeneity isn't as much a result of shared taste as it is a matter of convenience; a consensus builds that most of the songs following me from party to party can be found on a single compact disc...