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...demoralized Labor Party elected the former diplomat and bureaucrat as its sixth leader in a decade, not a single national opinion poll - and by election day there'd been more than 100 - had put Howard's conservatives in the lead. "Throughout the year I have had a fairly gloomy view of our prospects," conceded former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer...
...quietest time in Baghdad usually comes around midnight. Curfew falls. People across the city turn off lights and bed down, easing the load on the electricity grid enough to allow government-run power-lines to flow. Generators go silent. Fumes clear, and stars come into view in the clear night sky. On some evenings these days if you stay up late you can hear unbroken hours of hushed calm stirred only by the distant barking of dogs or the wispy echoes of a jet high overhead. Other nights, though, the crunch of bombs falling around the city begins to sound...
...critics say Ghosh's sympathetic portrayal of ragging reflects a misguided sentimental view too common in India. "Ragging is sold as part of the tradition of the college," says Vij, who refuses to distinguish mild ragging from harsher abuse. "The idea of ragging - that freshmen have to be made to feel lower - is wrong. And once seniors know they can control students, once they taste that power, mild ragging often turns into something harsher...
...tell your friends about the Seinfeld DVD box set you just bought from Amazon, for example, your friends will also get a small ad right beneath that update. Advertisers can specify, on the basis of demographic data culled from a user's profile, exactly which members they want to view...
While many assume Howard's status as Prime Minister will save him on his own northern Sydney seat even if the Government is defeated, others see it differently. "There's nothing special about Bennelong," says election analyst Antony Green. "If the Government falls, my view is that Bennelong will fall with it." Having made history in so many personally gratifying ways as the country's second longest-serving Prime Minister, Howard may depart politics in circumstances that would surely leave him hollow - paired with the long-forgotten Stanley Bruce as the only Australian P.M. to lose his seat...