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...moment of incredible suspense." For the 2011 flight, he and Boschberg will do alternating stints of five days and five nights between landings. A day on the ground spent charging in the sunlight should be enough to get the plane back into the air the next morning for another stage in its globe-girdling journey...
Embattled heads of government often find solace in foreign affairs. At a comfortable remove from the rough-and-tumble of domestic politics, they can cultivate a statesmanlike image on the international stage. No such luck for Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister: a nasty scandal brewing in the U.K. followed him all the way to Uganda. It was there, he says, on the eve of his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach...
After so long in opposition, victory is a sweet but strange fruit for the Labor faithful packed into a function room at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. Between the party notching its election-winning 76th seat and the arrival on stage of Kevin Rudd, guests are occupied mostly by their own thoughts. "The polls had been good for so long . . . then came the bad ones yesterday," says silver-haired Tony Smith, a "booth captain" in Rudd's seat of Griffith. "Now it's relief...
...Finally, Rudd and family - his wife, two sons, daughter and son-in-law - are on stage and the emotional dam breaks. The winner is composed, respectful to the vanquished; everyone is thanked in just the right order. He strikes a balance between maintaining the conservative tone of his campaign and tossing some juicy bones to the true believers. A reference to the "great Australian trade union movement" and a declaration to be "a P.M. for all Australians - a P.M. for indigenous Australians" draw the loudest cheers. Later, as they spill into the mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze...
...Howard had phoned his congratulations to Kevin Rudd, and Sky News announced the P. M.'s imminent arrival. A couple of diehards carrying a JOHN HOWARD FOREVER banner pushed roughly through the photographers lining the stage, careless of a supposedly left-leaning media complicit in Rudd's triumph. As one tried to protect his camera, a rugby league player in an expensive suit grabbed his shirt, snarling, "It's you f___ people's fault. Are you happy...