Word: pm
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...starring in the hit cartoon series The Simpsons. The animated Blair appeared in an episode aired in the U.S. on Sunday. The Simpsons are on vacation in the U.K., and Blair - in dialogue he recorded for the show - gives them advice on London's tourist attractions. The PM told producers he wanted to "do one thing that will impress my kids...
Because Blair is so articulate and stalwart, Bush has always got a boost from the Prime Minister's visits to the U.S. But Bush's reciprocal gesture can only hurt Blair. The PM's approval ratings have slumped, largely because of his decision to stand with Bush on Iraq. There aren't any weapons of mass destruction to vindicate Blair's key argument that Saddam Hussein was furiously producing them. Constant strife and death in Iraq are making the British public uneasy about Bush's competence and fearful that Britain's nearly 10,000 troops in Iraq will be killed...
...December, a year early. The third attempt in just over a year to elect a new President was set to be held on Sunday. Previous polls failed due to low voter turnout. Meet the New Boss MIDDLE EAST Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet, headed by PM Ahmed Qurie. The new lineup seemed weaker than that of Qurie's predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with Arafat to name a strong security chief to face down Hamas, as Israel and the U.S. have demanded...
...Diary, he has an acute sense of the desperate needs that underlie our often comically deflected longings. In his comedies people always act improbably, but they are full of a sort of fierce wistfulness too. They will eventually go to extraordinary lengths to find romantic fulfillment. Thus Grant's PM finds himself singing carols on Christmas Eve to bratty children. A horny, socially inept waiter (Kris Marshall) flies all the way to Wisconsin hoping for the sex he can't get in London and, of all things, finds it. A couple of movie stand-ins repeatedly get naked...
...long-standing government embargo that had impoverished the LTTE-controlled north and east. Opponents accused him of endangering national security, but the gamble paid off. Three months later, the rebels, in part encouraged by his gesture, signed a formal cease-fire. TIME's Aravind Adiga met with the PM at his official residence in Colombo...