Word: thatcherism
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DIED. ROBERT RUNCIE, 78, outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1980s who criticized Margaret Thatcher and angered Prince Charles and Diana by recounting private conversations with them to his biographer, and whose efforts to improve relations with Rome led the Pope, in 1982, to pray with him in the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170; in Hertfordshire, England...
...Lewis was seated at a table with students and several historians at the first annual Gender at the Gates Conference--an event organized by Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to examine the history of women at Harvard...
Democracy means listening to the voters, and that may prove to be a humiliating experience for Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, when Londoners go the polls Thursday to elect a mayor. Early in his term, Blair urged the revival of citywide government - dismantled by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 - proposing the new post of mayor and a 25-member assembly (the Lord Mayor of London is a ceremonial job centered on the financial district; local government is exercised in the city's 33 boroughs). That was the easy part...
...that Blair vanquished in his rise to leadership of the Labor party, showed interest in the job, the prime minister was having none of it. Although the iconoclastic Livingstone, a longtime favorite of Londoners since the mid-?80s, when he headed the Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution to get rid of him - won almost three quarters of the vote in the Labor party's primary, Blair fixed the selection process to ensure that his pick, former education secretary Frank Dobson, would get the nod. But that so enraged London Labor voters that...
...choice of the Labor membership. "Livingstone's a great, colorful campaigner and is clearly out there having fun," says McAllister. "And Blair has inadvertently turned him into the major, if not the only, issue of the campaign, allowing him to dominate the media." Don't worry, Tony, Mrs. Thatcher feels your pain...