Word: unpopularity
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...happy, and they're saying, 'I told you so.'" But Blair is still stuck with the mess. A trip next month to Washington to pick up a gold medal from Congress for his steadfast support is being managed to minimize the "Gorbachev effect" - getting applause abroad for things unpopular at home. And no matter how Iraq resolves, it is likely to be Blair's last big foreign adventure. There's no other place Bush might fight where he will follow. That leaves Blair the hard slog of Labour's core mission: fixing the public services. Some improvements are beginning...
...clog the inner workings of the Internet. For the first time last month, according to MessageLabs, more than half the emails received by U.S. businesses were unsolicited. The time we spend deleting or defeating spam costs an estimated $8.9 billion a year in lost productivity. Sensing an enemy as unpopular as al-Qaeda, lawmakers are pondering a plethora of solutions--some of which, spam watchers say, could end up doing more harm than good...
...damage to the bodies of the young woman and the boy is too violent to be accidental. Someone hacked at the woman's face with a sharp instrument, and similar damage was done to the boy's chest--just what might be expected during a postmortem desecration of unpopular figures. (A cavity in the woman's chest was likely the incidental handiwork of later grave robbers.) "The damage to the mouth is appalling," says Fletcher. "It looks completely malicious...
...Times hopes--of a humiliating season of scandal that began with the disclosures that young reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarized or fabricated a string of stories. But at root, it was something more mundane and yet amazing: a workplace's staging a public mutiny to take down an unpopular boss. What fueled its unstoppable drama was that the mutiny took place at the country's most important (and some would add self-important) newspaper, placing an institution that is in the business of covering news suddenly at the center of a perfect news storm. And because the paper...
DIED. SANDMAN SIMS, 86, tap dancer at Harlem's Apollo Theater, whose job for decades was to chase unpopular acts offstage on amateur nights; in New York City. Howard Sims, who won his stage name for dancing on sand, taught his fancy footwork to dancers Gregory Hines and Ben Vereen, and boxers Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad...