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...overwritten by the events that followed, by war and hurricane and every family's private trials. But the record can't be erased, any more than a year can have 364 days, and anything can bring it back full screen, like a glance at a skyline, a siren in the distance, a prayer that comes as reflex as you walk to work and remember the day they never came home...
David Miliband has an image problem. Smart and engaging, he resisted siren voices that urged him to challenge Gordon Brown in June's contest to become Prime Minister, earning a plum Cabinet job in recompense. By any reckoning he's a heavy hitter. Yet Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs finds it tough to convince people that he's old enough to do his job. On a July trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, his first long-haul destinations since taking office, his youthful appearance provoked disbelief. "He's the Foreign Secretary? He's so young...
...course slowing down trade requires only collective will, not regulations. What if buyers decided to resist the siren song of low prices emanating from the nearest Wal-Mart and buy instead from mom-and-pop stores stocked with higher-priced, locally made goods? Globalization would decelerate. Offshoring could be slowed, too, if vast numbers of buyers agreed to pay more for services whose workers are based in their home countries. Such a scenario, however, seems unlikely. In the 1970s, car buyers didn't hesitate to choose Toyotas and Hondas when they proved cheaper or more reliable than Fords and Fiats...
Only blocks away, except for the occasional wail of a siren, there were few clues that anything had broken the calm of the muggy evening. Sayre noted that people were going about their daily business and said he even spotted some joggers on a nearby street. "It was very surreal," he said. With reporting from the Associated Press
Miliband's 41-year-old brother David was put under pressure by Brown's opponents inside Labour to stand against Brown for the party leadership. The Harry Potter lookalike, then Secretary of State for Environment, resisted those siren calls and will now be working spells over foreign policy as his reward. The new Foreign Secretary is unlikely to charm many neocons. Skeptical about the war in Iraq, David Miliband also protested in Cabinet last year at the British handling of the conflagration in Lebanon...