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...year ago, at the party's 2006 convention, many delegates sounded battle-ready: they were squaring up to their own colleagues. Supporters of Tony Blair, then still Premier but openly planning his departure, were at loggerheads with the adherents of his rival, Brown. "It was a pretty toxic event," Jon Cruddas, an MP on the left of the party, told a meeting in Bournemouth. He said he feared that Labour "was approaching free fall...
...fact a proving ground for the pros. The current leader in the Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...
...This is now an annual ritual for the President of Iran. Every year, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, he plots out a media campaign that - in its shrewdness, relentlessness, and quest for attention - would rival Angelina Jolie on a movie junket. And like any international figure, Mr. Ahmadinejad hones his performance for multiple audiences: in this case, the journalists and academics who can filter his speech and ideas for a wider American audience...
...consensus-driven culture of the Japanese media, the national dailies' lockstep front-page declaration on Sunday morning - PRIME MINISTER FUKUDA TO BE ELECTED TODAY - was an example of just how predetermined the race to replace Prime Minster Shinzo Abe was. Yasuo Fukuda's formal victory over his rival Taro Aso as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and, effectively, Prime Minister later that day merely made official what the country had known since Fukuda first threw his hat in the race. The two candidates fought over 528 votes - 387 LDP parliamentarian votes and 141 votes from...
...chairman François-Henri Pinault, who was a classmate of Hermann's in business school, insists she personifies the brand. He snatched her away from PPR rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she was running ready-to-wear at Dior, as much for her winning record as for her provenance. "Not only does Valerie have all the professional skills," Pinault says, "but she is the YSL woman. She is French, and YSL is the most French of brands. And being an active woman and by her feminine instincts, she will have ideas come...