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...crushed by Margaret Thatcher in that election, says Owen, Labour decided that it had to prove it was "now the party that would provide the means by which industry and business could flourish." But Labour lost elections in 1987 and again in 1992, when it was defeated by the unpopular Tory government of John Major, itself mired in accusations of sleaze. Katwala calls that last outcome "astonishingly traumatic," and Labour's coming generation--Blair to the fore--set about ensuring that the party could never again sink so low. The result, says Katwala: "a degree of overcompensation" in the courtship...
...could limit some of the damage done by the misadventure in Iraq. "What [the Bush team] may be stumbling toward is grand strategy by accident, that includes diplomacy, economic muscle, military force and all of your capacity to lead other countries," says a former U.S. ambassador. But can an unpopular, lame-duck President, and a team with such a record of ineptitude, pull it off? "It is still going to be a very bumpy road," he says...
Bush's nervy war on our wrongheaded health-tax subsidy will probably go nowhere, but it's destined to be revived if Democrats get a shot at comprehensive reform after 2008. Even a President as unpopular as Herbert Hoover probably had a good idea or two eventually to steal...
...after all are a grassroots phenomenon that were traditionally read by everyone in society from the lowliest street sweeper to the crowned heads of Europe," says Bellow, the president and editorial director of TNP. "They are the natural form for the expression of ideas, especially those that are marginal, unpopular or against the grain of current moral taste." Not to mention that people increasingly don't have the desire to buy pricey, time-consuming books, a fact that has not escaped the notice of Bellow and Bernstein...
...political practices is extremely high, as long the trash is picked up on time. And since the mayor himself has been indicted on nothing, he strides on, overseeing everything from public housing and education to the details of an ongoing beautification initiative. It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten. Meanwhile, he has accepted blame for not having had a better handle on the rampant job-rigging infractions, in which applicants for city positions who had political connections were...