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...fundamental European question, and that is always dangerous." But Blair hopes it will at least get him through the night. The public's trust in him has taken a beating from the Iraq war and an occupation that is getting more dangerous every day. Howard, backed by several Euro-skeptic newspapers, had been scoring points off Blair for arrogance and untrustworthiness in blocking the referendum, a theme that would have dominated local and European elections in June and provided a big stick for pummeling Labour in the general election expected a year from now. "Blair is bowing to political reality...
...believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic ion the crowd, says, "Oh please! What can you learn from facts? ... What on earth can we ever know about anyone else? Do you think we know, really know, who other people are, or what they are, or what they...
...skeptic, unable to shake the unsettled feeling of constantly being on the move, might say that neither is truly home. It’s strange sometimes to realize that no matter which bed I’m sleeping in at the end of the day, I’ll be in another city soon...
Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad--but they're definitely going to be really different...
...Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad - but they're definitely going to be really different...