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...know what the character of that legacy will be. Kadima does not currently have an identity outside of Ariel Sharon himself; it is more of an expression of his leadership and larger-than-life persona than a functioning political party with a clear ideological platform. Sharon’s exit from the political stage leaves a leadership vacuum that will not be easy to fill. “There is no single American figure to compare [Sharon] with,” wrote James Bennett in a 2004 New York Times Magazine profile. “He is Andrew Jackson, George...
...history, the half-ton clapper came flying out from the bell while swinging and landed on the church roof. Approximately three years ago, a cable was connected to the clapper to secure it in place. Just in case this fails, there is an extra clapper waiting in the platform beneath the bell and rigging blocks underneath the bell to pull it up into place...
...Parliament, and in this normally unflappable nation there's a restless and angry mood that bodes ill for the governing Liberal Party. With two weeks remaining before the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power...
...started chatting at the train platform at South Station, and I sat next to her and we chatted on the Amtrak train, and that’s how we met,” he says. “We had sort of a natural common interest, because we both had policy interests, and then we started dating and got married...
...Overall, the pairing seems to be a good one. Palm is bringing some of the warmth of the Palm OS to the coldly businesslike Windows Mobile platform, and getting a ride to the top of the corporate ladder in the process. My guess is that Palm will sell plenty of these, and that Microsoft will be happy about it. That is, unless they don't get into the legal mire that Research In Motion's BlackBerry has been in for a while - in mid December, mobile e-mail software developer Visto sued Microsoft for patent violations, particularly pertaining to Windows...