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...fresh opinion poll - a new government. A survey for The Independent newspaper, completed on Nov. 25, when news of this latest government scandal had only broken that morning, puts the Conservative party 19 points ahead of Labour. That's the most substantial lead the Tories have enjoyed since Margaret Thatcher's third prime ministerial term...
Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich offered her own take on the event’s cultural relevance...
Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version of Margaret Thatcher (and pre-cursor to Nicolas Sarkozy): a free market reformer ready to shake up the status quo and social welfare state in old Europe. But in his five-year reign from 2001 to 2006, Berlusconi was unable to overcome divisions among his allies or resist his own focus on protecting...
...Barker Center, professors shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream of questions. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hastened to add that students don’t need to come in with a specific question or share some fascinating talent. “Just normal people are fun, too,” she said. Professors also said that the semiannual faculty dinners...
...also shudder remembering how in 1978, Prime Minister James Callaghan--who was ahead in the polls and seemed poised to win his own mandate--unexpectedly shied away from calling elections. Early in 1979, he lost a confidence motion and was forced to go to the polls. His opponent, Margaret Thatcher, led her party to victory and an 18-year stretch in office...