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...fact that the Italian economy has lately performed less well than most in Europe, dismiss the criticisms of their neighbors. He is, they argue, a man who gets things done, who will bring the smack of firm government to a nation that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three core economies of ex-communist central...
...Damrosch, Bernbaum professor of literature; Peter L. Galison ’77, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics; Robert Kiely, Loker professor of English and former master of Adams House; Stuart M. Shieber ’81, McKay professor of computer science; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history; and Gregory Verdine, professor of chemical biology...
...begin to replace actual songs, and although they don’t start busting into “Football’s Coming Home” or your standard Arsenal chant, you almost expect as much. The peppiest song is probably “The Day That Thatcher Dies,” and I don’t think the band is trying to be ironic, which may or may not be disturbing or ingeniously comic, depending on how you view the band...
Before Dennis Thatcher owned the title of world's most insignificant other, there was KEN, who not only had to play second fiddle to Barbie but also suffered the further indignity of having no genitalia. Ken, named after the son of Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler, celebrated his 40th birthday last week. Mattel marked the occasion by announcing plans to hawk a commemorative tuxedo-clad Ken doll, expected to land in stores in June. Fortieth-anniversary Ken will be sold with a tiny replica of the very first Ken, who wore a red bathing suit with a yellow towel...
...perpetrators. Swire says the "provenance was unusual" of the timer remnants found outside Lockerbie, thus raising again suggestions that they had been planted on the scene. He and some other families want to see politicians in power at the time-among them Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher-questioned about the explosion and the subsequent investigation. Tony Blair's New Labour government might not be ill-disposed to an inquiry into the workings of a Conservative predecessor, but officials say no decision will be made until the criminal process against al-Megrahi has run its full course. Martin Cadman...