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...zealotry and servility, Blair has been a true leader to the British people, always acting on his beliefs. Unfortunately, public opinion has washed Blair’s approval rating—once a record high of 82 percent, now a low of 26 percent—out with the tide. But Blair has stuck to his beliefs, even when the public has grown impatient waiting for results, and history will remember him as a wise leader who tried to steer a reluctant populous onto the right course...
Prime Minister Blair has stumbled in his choice of policies, but he has never wavered in his beliefs, even under immense pressure. For that courage, history will remember him; and posterity may one day mark his premiership as the high tide of "New Labour...
...opposing the Reagan Administration when it announced plans to sell early warning planes to Saudi Arabia. The Moral Majority lasted only a decade, until l989. But Falwell remained a controversial figure - and a go-to source for politicians and reporters seeking to know how the nation's growing tide of values voters would respond to various issues. Many other leaders did not care for his intensely partisan pulpiteering and kept their distance from him. The Lynchburg preacher was downright hostile to Bill Clinton, boasting to his flock in the first week after Clinton's inauguration in 1993 that...
Then there's oil. As Thomas Friedman has noted, the price of crude and the tide of freedom tend to move in opposite directions. Before 9/11, the price per bbl. fluctuated between $20 and $30. Now it hovers between $50 and $65. And that's not likely to change anytime soon, given rising demand from China and India. That gives oil-producing autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade...
...York will also have to stem the tide of students who fall behind in the first place. Ninth grade is a major pitfall. Parthenon found that 78% of kids who become overage and undercredited had to repeat freshman year. One key is improving reading skills in middle school--a challenge nationally. Last year 37% of the city's eighth-graders were proficient in reading, up from 30% in 2002 but still a long way from ideal. Another key, Klein believes, is continuing to replace big, impersonal high schools with smaller schools that offer a sense of community and a variety...