Word: thatcherism
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...lunch. But the gentility went out the window around noon Tuesday as the cops grabbed bystanders and pulled them out of the way as they rushed to empty the area not just for Cheney and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, but for a special guest: Lady Margaret Thatcher...
...most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After a decade of trailing Labour in the polls, the Tories are now up 8 points. It will probably be three more years before Cameron goes head-to-head with Blair's replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just...
Besides Skocpol, the members of the committee include 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is also chair of FAS’s Committee on Pedagogy; Andrew A. Biewener, chair of the department of organismic and evolutionary biology; Benjamin M. Friedman, professor of political economy; Mary Malcolm Gaylord, professor of Romance languages and literatures; Eric Mazur, professor of physics; Xiao-Li Meng, chair of the department of statistics; Michael J. Puett, chair of the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, professor of music and African and African-American studies...
...world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants, the national theater and the employers' federation (see Leading Ladies). With all that - plus an abiding conceit that it epitomizes the avant-garde - France should have been among the first countries to see a woman in its highest political office. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of Britain in 1979, Gro Harlem Brundtland served three terms in Norway from 1981. Germany's glass ceiling was smashed last year with the election of Angela Merkel. India has had a woman leader, as have Bangladesh, New Zealand, Israel and Chile - why not France? Because...
...most crucial reason for Labour to unite: the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, 39. Young and smooth, he's putting a windmill on his house to proclaim how green he is. "Blair's true heir," he calls himself, stealing New Labour's thunder as assiduously as Blair stole Margaret Thatcher's. After a decade of trailing Labour in the polls, the Tories are now up 8 points. It will probably be three more years before Cameron goes head-to-head with Blair's replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just...