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...eagerly awaited British election finally kicked off last week. Yes, we had one already earlier this month, a real barnburner: it so absorbed the public that 40% of Britons forgot to vote. Good thing it was only a warmup act. The main event will unfold over the next few weeks, as the Conservative Party selects a new leader to replace the hapless William Hague. It should make for great entertainment. The frontrunner, Michael Portillo, has shed his reputation as a right-wing rabble-rouser to become the soothing, centrist voice of Tory moderation. "Our party has to appeal...
...events in the Middle East continue to unfold, Harvard seems to stand as a microcosm of the crisis in the region. Competing claims during a time of intensified crisis in Israel and the surrounding area have left campus groups visibly divided, despite the groups' common stated goal of peace...
...council's Feb. 25 meeting, during which the council voted not to recommend that the University censure Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield `53 for comments about black students' link to grade inflation, saw a fiery ideological debate unfold within the council--one that Gusmorino was hard-pressed to mitigate...
...aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky-looking soap. I leave the party early, walking past the fighter jets on deck and thinking, If you set off a bomb on this ship...But then these are the upfronts. Plenty of bombs got launched this week...
...Cuba and other targets of U.S.-led criticism in the committee were always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. reelection turned their backs on Washington. That such a scenario would unfold on this particular vote at this particular time was entirely unpredictable, a Russian diplomat told TIME, "This was incredible... How could the U.S. allow itself to be voted off the commission? How could the State Department not realize what was happening?" But that the U.S. would at some point find itself...