Word: ruling
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...with Kit Kats. The thing I found most remarkable is the Wimbledon locker room, which the players share. I played middle school basketball, and we wouldn't prepare in the same room as the opposition. These guys were in the fifth set of a Grand Slam final, with the rule of the sport hanging in the balance, and during the rain delays they are both repairing to the same little room. Tennis is incredibly intimate. Yet in this match there was no physical contact at all between the players until the end, when they shook hands...
...spend. New Labour, for the first two years after its 1997 victory, adhered to stringent spending plans set by its Conservative predecessors. Even after that date, as Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, or Finance Minister - the office that best suited Brown - he held to his "golden rule," borrowing only to invest, and resisted raising the tax rate paid by top earners to fund Labour's social-justice and equality initiatives...
...even as the downturn forced Labour to dump its tarnished rule to start spending like Paris Hilton on a shopping spree, it revealed weaknesses in Labour's orthodoxy about wealth creation as the means to social justice. After years of boom, the gap between rich and poor in Britain has actually widened, while higher earners face swingeing future taxes to plug a widening deficit. And some of the things Brown does not do so well are the things that have made him vulnerable to leadership challenges. A serious man, a well-meaning man, he's a hopeless communicator...
...Beijing That's not PC Chinese Netizens are balking at a new rule starting July 1 that will require all computers sold in the country to carry website-blocking software--a policy that gives the government even broader control over citizens' Internet access. Officials billed the move as a crackdown on pornography, but China's history of Web censorship has activists and Internet users concerned that the preinstalled software will be used to limit free speech and privacy...
...Ezatollah Zarghami. A former member of the Revolutionary Guards and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, Zarghami also worked with Larijani at the Guards' political directorate. Analysts say Zarghami's role there was to fashion a modern theoretical foundation for velayat-e faqih, the doctrine of absolute clerical rule on which Khamenei's authority rests...