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...last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts. You suddenly had a confident Tory leader against a Labour leader who ran scared...
...Hynek Pikhart, a professor of statistics and epidemiology at University College, London, estimates the chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year to be less than 0.001%. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this torrent of disaster is that nobody can pinpoint its root cause. "There are no demographic differences between Gnosall and the rest of England" that would explain the anomaly, Pikhart notes. "If anything, it is above average in terms of employment and other social indicators...
...answer. But the Pope is not ready to declare victory. The Church's current foe, as he sees it, is still in the heart of Europe and still atheist in nature: a sort of post-Socialist, anything-goes brand of Utopia that Benedict calls "relativism" - and disparages as the root of everything from loose sexual mores to a breakdown of the traditional family to runaway capitalism...
...Malaysia's other communities, feel the same way. On Nov. 25, thousands gathered under the shadow of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers, the world's tallest twin buildings, for a rare protest to call attention to what they believe is an unwillingness by the government to address the root causes of their marginalization. The demonstrators were dispersed by tear gas; the day before, three rally organizers had been arrested on sedition charges, but were later given a conditional discharge...
...used to root for Yale, but now I have to put my allegiances to Harvard,” he said...