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...Britain according to her firmly conservative views. Indeed, the votes had barely been counted last week when she announced a shake-up of her Cabinet. Ousted from his post as Foreign Secretary was Francis Pym, who had differed with Thatcher on a number of issues. His replacement is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who as Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer proved himself a trusted instrument of her economic policies. Howe's successor at Treasury is Nigel Lawson, formerly Secretary of Energy and another loyal Thatcherite. Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw, whom Thatcher considered too moderate, has been elevated...
...banks. The moderates wanted Militant Tendency members ousted from the party, but the far left insisted they remain. Though Foot last year vowed that the radicals would run on a Labor ticket "over my dead body," the group stayed, and the Labor leader ended up campaigning with their candidates. Sir Harold Wilson, voicing the frustration of many of his party colleagues at the rise of the leftist militants, bluntly criticized Foot's accommodating stand. "I would not have anything to do with them," he said flatly. "I would sling them out on their necks...
...starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain it was causing many Britons, she forced out a number of these "wets," her term for the irresolute. Says former Labor Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson, 67, who retired from politics last month after 38 years in Parliament: "Mrs. Thatcher's image is that of the toughest...
...smell of stale fear that’s reeking from our skins / The drinking never stops because the drinks absolve our sins / We sit and grow our roots into the floor / But what are we waiting for?” Clearly, we’re waiting for you, Sir Endicott, as you falsely surf the crowd in search of hope… or another song to visually butcher. —Mia P. Walker
...credited with inventing the World Wide Wide, Sir Timothy J. Berners-Lee, urged leaders of academic, private, and governmental organizations to recognize and reap the benefits of the open culture of the digital world at an event at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening. Berners-Lee received the third annual Pathfinder Award from the Kennedy School’s Leadership for a Networked World program, which aims to educate leaders about changes driven by the digitalization of information. The award recognizes individuals who have made innovations in government through technology. “The government’s challenges have...