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...smallest seat in the country, Wentworth has become one of the Coalition's biggest headaches. Since Federation, Labor has never won the seat, and it isn't hard to see why. Dotted with galleries and boutiques, it contains many of Sydney's wealthiest suburbs and feels like Nohopeville for a party with working-class roots. But it's more complicated than that. A redistribution since the 2004 poll has given Labor a lift, as has a perception that the sitting Member, Malcolm Turnbull, is egregiously ambitious and opportunistic even by politicians' standards. In addition, Turnbull may pay a price...
...this glorious day," Labor candidate George Newhouse says to Hawke, who has told the party he led to power in 1983 that he's ready to help any way he can. Already, it's dispatched him to numerous marginal electorates, including Prime Minister John Howard's seat of Bennelong. There, in a community hall, Hawke delighted the faithful with an attack on the government's foreign policy. That was a night for rousing oratory. Today, Hawke will do what he does best: hit strangers between the eyes with his peculiar brand of ocker charm...
Director. Actor. Key Grip. Foley Mixer. Driver for Mr. Damon. Special-effects supervisor ... Can't stay in your seat till the end of the credits? That's because moviemaking is an extreme team art form, requiring a throng of people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
Someone else took notice as well. No one has fought longer and harder for universal health coverage than Senator Edward Kennedy; he introduced a national health-insurance bill back in 1970. But he and the Governor were not exactly allies. Romney had challenged Kennedy for his Senate seat in 1994 in a nasty race. Reading the first outlines of Romney's plan in the Boston Globe, Kennedy decided the Republican Governor was serious about the issue, and he told his staff to reach out to Romney's advisers. Before long, Romney was in Kennedy's office in Washington, taking...
...this, we must assert that the disconnect between power and the people—intrinsic to representative government—cannot be bridged permanently by the good will, intellect, or charm of the powerful. Instead, these managers of political change end up drowning in their own privileges. Because the seat of power is segregated from the general life of the society (phone-calls and letters to Senators do not change this fact) and because the people do not participate directly in decision-making, pathologies and prejudices internal to the operation of power invariably emerge.History is replete with examples of this...