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...Labour has had a failure since 1997, it's that we've let that trust and openness with the public go." Brown himself suggests an end to the culture of endless policy announcements and targets that defined and eventually undermined confidence in Blair's government. "You cannot just pull levers and expect things to happen," he says. "You've got to win public support." Indeed, Blair's failure to win public support for the war in Iraq proved a disastrous self-inflicted wound. As debate raged in 2003, Westminster watchers detected in Brown's unusually low profile a subtle criticism...
Whenever the subject of Romney's "Mormon problem" arises, a whole host of commentators offer the same solution: all Romney has to do is "pull a J.F.K.," they say, meaning he needs to make a game-changing speech of the kind Kennedy delivered in September 1960 to the growling Protestant ministers of greater Houston. Kennedy declared that he viewed the separation of church and state as sacred; his religious beliefs, he said, were his private affair. "But if the time should ever come," he vowed, "... when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national...
...Just 14 seconds later, Mahler scored on a feed from freshman defensemen Billy Geist, giving Harvard a two-goal lead less than half a minute into the contest. Cohen would beat Dartmouth goalie Michael Novosel once more in the period, but the Big Green scored two late goals to pull within...
When will African American entertainers and athletes pull their resources together to create a bank where aspiring African American people can submit a business plan to secure a loan? -Terry Jackson in Durham, N.C.You know I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world. America has had a hand in putting [black people] in a certain...
...this long-tail economy," Hayes says. "If you're the local painter or you make jewelry, how do reach those who are interested in what you do? The key is to make it easier for the individual publisher and the interested reader to connect." Blurb's "slurper" tools, which pull text and images from the Web, have also inspired bloggers to put their posts on the printed page. A new feature allowing multiple contributors to collaborate on a single book will go live this summer...