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...wanted to privatize state-run industries. They wanted to nationalize the top 100 companies. We wanted to reform the trade unions. They wanted to give more power to the trade unions. There were huge, ideological divisions. That has changed. With Blair, the left has accepted much of the settlement that we're a free market economy with good public services but an enterprise culture and all of that, and part of NATO and believe in strong defense. He's bought all of that, so it is a different world we're in. People want their politicians to live...
...anyone who would listen. But apart from a handful of tabloid journalists, he says he wasn't taken seriously until 2002, when he met Nuala O'Loan. She had been appointed the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland as part of the reforms that followed the 1998 Good Friday settlement. A Catholic academic, Mrs. O'Loan's background is very different from McCord's. But she has proven to be equally tough-minded. Her report on a four-year investigation, published January 22, confirms McCord's basic conclusions. It alleges that some police informers in Northern Ireland got away with murder...
Eight years after a multi-billion-dollar master settlement between tobacco companies and 46 states on the health problems linked to smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis...
...probably never know. In the aftermath of Lynch's decision, the parties are talking settlement. Doe will get compensated, while the sergeant will pay with his name. If that makes the judge look mean, then maybe it's the sergeant, not Doe, who should complain...
Bleasdale, 38, says his photos "put a face on the 4 million." He says, "The statistics in Congo are so important and big, and yet no one talks about them." He called his 2002 book on Congo 100 Years of Darkness. A century ago, Conrad wrote that European settlement in Africa was "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience and geographical exploration." Referring to the warring parties who have visited so much misery on Congo's people in this war, Bleasdale says, "those words are as valid today as they were then...