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Strangely, it is on the stony ground of unfulfilled hopes that Labour has made its stand--like a builder who tells you six months into the job that renovating your house will take twice as long as promised. "We have a long, long way to go," Blair says repeatedly. Voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair's Next Move | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Not only do voters consider Blair more capable than Hague (50% to 16%), they also reject the Tories' key domestic pledge, an American-inspired plan to cut taxes by at least $12 billion a year, possibly up to $30 billion. According to an ICM poll, voters prefer Labour's tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of the Beginning? | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

To fulfill its third pledge to undergraduates, the council expanded its "UC Books" and "UC Boxes" programs.

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under New Management | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

But Bush's message about humility served multiple purposes. It was not just a signal to foreign policy hawks and neo-isolationists that the new Republican president would be less inclined to dispatch envoys or peace-keepers to troubled regions of the world. Humility was a code word designed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real-World Lessons in Humility | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

Aside from the Hong Kong affair, though, this Cannes was relatively star-starved. Everyone wasn't there. Jack Nicholson (The Pledge), Cameron Diaz (Shrek) and Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now Redux) all had major movies on display, but none of them showed. This was a festival of films, not photo ops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Heat | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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