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...public would prefer Blair to leave this minute. Penn, who helped Bill Clinton come back from several major reversals, thinks Blair has plenty of juice left. "We successfully beat back the Tory appeal to their base, and we lost 2.5% on Iraq to the Lib Dems as a protest vote. This isn't Lyndon Johnson swept away by the Vietnam War. I think the protest is temporary. Blair has an opportunity to heal things and renew his leadership...
...number keeps shrinking, there might be a few more IBM employees feeling the Big Blues. - By Michael Brunton Waiting For A Reaction The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) won't begin producing energy before 2050, but it's already generating hot air. Last week, Japan considered filing a formal protest after French officials - including President Jacques Chirac - indicated that the French site at Cadarache, 65 km north of Marseilles, had all but bagged the €10 billion deal to host ITER, which will try to mimic the sun's power by using 100 million-degree Celsius heat to create nuclear...
...greener pastures. When the commonwealth gold medalist, Stephen Cherono, moved to Qatar, there was uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
According to Barlow, some students are even considering not submitting their drafts, claiming that they lost the drafts to protest what she called a “witch hunt...
...even as she was fêted by the literary establishment, Kumin maintained an activist—even rebellious—streak. In November 1998, she and Carolyn Kizer resigned as chancellors of the American Academy of Poets (AAP) to protest the absence of blacks and other minorities on the academy’s 12-member board...