Word: premierships
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...subconsciously biased in favor of the home team. Ryan H. Boyko ’05, a research assistant for Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser in the department’s Cognitive Evolutionary Laboratory, led the examination that spanned a 14-year period in England’s Premiership soccer league. He found that the fans do indeed spur teams on to victory at home games—but they do so by influencing the referees rather than the players. “People assume that most, if not all of their home advantage is that as fans, they...
Early on, there were hints that this new friendship did not always smell as fresh as it might have. Just six months into Blair's premiership, Labour was forced to return a $1.7 million donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn...
...like watching an aging rocker with too much ego back onstage: the old flashy moves may evoke the glory days but no longer convince. I accept that Tony Blair sincerely wants peace in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and that for the few months remaining in his premiership, he shouldn't just sit around. But his foreign-policy speech at the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Guildhall last week, followed by videolink testimony to the Baker-Hamilton commission in Washington that's tasked with somehow extricating the U.S. from Iraq, makes me think Blair's remarkable self...
...Though Koizumi all but anointed abe as his successor, another leader may bear even more responsibility for boosting Abe to the premiership: Kim Jong Il. As deputy cabinet secretary, Abe accompanied Koizumi on his historic trip to Pyongyang in 2002. After Kim shocked Japan by admitting that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese nationals, including Megumi Yokota, Abe became the face of Tokyo's response. When a group of surviving abductees visited Japan, Abe insisted they not return to the North. "From then on he was very popular on TV and among the general public," says Jun Iio, professor of government...
...intrigue that led to Yanukovych's reemergence is as much a part of democracy as fair elections, or for that matter, separation of powers. In the March parliamentary elections, Yanukovych?s PR won 32% of the vote fair and square. The Orange forces, badly split since Tymoshenko lost her Premiership last September in a feud with the OU, tried to re-build their winning coalition, along with the Socialst party, but Tymoshenko?s categorical condition was the Premiership...