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Friday, Oct. 28. “The Line of Beauty.” Alan Hollinghurst, the winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, reads from his novel about Thatcher-era London. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...
...hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first to lead a major Western nation ... In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will...
...Angela Merkel's bid for Germany's chancellorship (Aug. 29) was just the latest attempt by a woman to win a country's top elected position. And when the subject of a woman in the top job comes up, the person most talked about is Margaret Thatcher, who was on TIME's cover of May 14, 1979, when she became Britain's first female Prime Minister. Here is an excerpt from that report...
...They’re setting up and getting started and getting the staff,” said Harvard College Professor and Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is a member of the Council...
...Democrats, who clung to old bureaucratic solutions and cosmetic remedies like affirmative action-and worse, to the denigration of a basic governmental role: the need to plan for the future, to anticipate crises. The new philosophy of governance was stated most crudely in 1987 by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society ... There are individual men and women, and there are families...