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...parliamentary selection committees, the seats are no longer filled with local grandees but with insurance agents, housewives, teachers, salesmen. These party activists tend to pick candidates from among their own kind. The new Tory politician tends to be a self-made, middle-manager type with more stomach for the rough-and-tumble of pavement politics than his or her predecessors. Thatcher, too, has apparently found the old school ties a bit too binding: her Cabinet no longer contains a Tory blueblood. The last to go was Lord Carrington, who resigned as Foreign Secretary after shouldering the blame for the Falklands...
...inside-outside player,” Amaker said of Baumann. “So he’s a bit more of a tougher match up in that regard because he scores in a variety of different ways.” Ivy League play has been rough on the Crimson so far this season, but Harvard has a chance to put an end to its league troubles by knocking off two of the hottest teams in the Ancient Eight in one weekend. “Certainly we’re hopeful that getting home this weekend will give...
...happy the question that is more helpful is, “How can I be happier?” It is very difficult to measure happiness. [...] It’s rather that happiness is a process, and what this class is about is whether one is in a rough patch or feeling great about their lives. The goal is that they become happier.8.FM: I’ve heard that you discuss relationships in the class. Any advice on how sex relates to happiness (with Valentine’s Day and all)?TBS: Sex is good for happiness, and happiness...
...fell to the Bantams, 7-2 to record its first loss of the season. With the weekend losses, the Crimson heads into its final regular season contest against Yale on a three-game losing streak and 0-3 against the top 5. “We are a bit rough around the edges,” senior Supriya Balsekar said. “We had no matches for 70 days [over Christmas break and exams].”PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 3In a rematch of last season’s Howe Cup Final, No. 2 Princeton overwhelmed Harvard...
Abida Hussain has a lot of explaining to do as she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Pakistan. The 61-year-old, two-time member of the National Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...