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That palette includes "greedy bankers" and a warning that debt-ridden Britain is "like an enlarged version of Iceland." There's green too, lots of it, with ambitious proposals for investing in renewable energy and axing any expansion of nuclear power. And some might see red at Clegg's trenchant views on recalibrating Britain's relationship with the U.S. The Lib Dems opposed British participation in the Iraq war, which Clegg ascribes to "this almost unseemly knee-bending allegiance to the White House. I don't think it's good for Britain," he says. "I don't think...
...easy to be high-minded when you're a party leader in no danger of attaining real power. But there's every evidence that Clegg's principles run deep. That matters. The accommodations he makes if Britons return a hung parliament could have an impact well beyond Westminster. For the politician - and for Britain - this is uncharted territory...
...measures by a coalition of the willing that would go beyond anything imposed by the U.N. The idea is that a tough sanction regime would hit the Iranian government - and especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guards - while sparing Iran's population. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...government may have scored a tactical victory on Feb. 11, by preventing the opposition from organizing antigovernment demonstrations on the anniversary of the revolution, but beneath the surface little has changed. The government lacks legitimacy and is increasingly resorting to force to stay in power. Infighting at the élite level is becoming more brutal, with wives and children of opposition leaders being beaten and tortured by government-sanctioned militias...
...other times, Angelology finds an almost hallucinatory power. In a flashback, a 9-year-old Evangeline tails her mysterious father to a darkened warehouse in lower Manhattan. Inside, three cages hang from the ceiling. In each cage is a giant, resplendently winged angel. "One of them appeared to be nearly insane with rage," she recalls. "It clutched the bars and screamed obscenities at its captors standing below. The other two were listless, lying limp and sullen, as if drugged or beaten into submission...