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Courageous visionary or cornered opportunist? Confident democrat or hypocritical gambler? Tony Blair may qualify for all these titles thanks to his abrupt, massive and raggedly executed U-turn last week. After months of deriding a referendum on the proposed European Union constitution as a "gross and irresponsible betrayal of the true British national interest," he endorsed the idea after all. The normally dour Conservative leader, Michael Howard, was gleeful as he mocked Blair's pirouette during a House of Commons debate. "Six months ago, the Prime Minister stood before his party conference and said, with all the lip-quivering intensity...
MATHER HOUSE COMMONS U. Jiff Self-Portraits, April...
When Ellwood returned to the KSG at the beginning of the 1995-1996 academic year, then-U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., called his departure from the Clinton administration “a tragedy...
MATHER HOUSE COMMONS U. Jiff Self-Portraits, April...
...those who know him best Sam Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never...