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...unique roster of stars-including James Coburn, Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour) -- enjoy the "charity" offered by Southern and Hoffenberg's nymphette, while scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry...
That tension lies behind his most consistent mistake in office: an impulse to be a "control freak"--as when he devolved power to the Welsh assembly and the London mayor but then tried to rig things so his cronies would be in charge. In both cases the locals rebelled, and Blair looked both sinister and silly. His ambitions to remake the country are so big that it may be hard for the control freak to resist grabbing even more levers of power...
...There is another complicating factor: shifting political institutions and allegiances within the country. The Labour government sold the idea of a new Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly as ways to strengthen the Union. It may be having the opposite effect. Though most English approve of this devolution, there are strains. Scottish M.P.s at Westminster can vote on English laws, for example, but English M.P.s have no vote on many Scottish matters. There is also irritation that the Scots, unlike the English, now only pay their university fees once they start earning. A recent survey found that 17% of people...
...Kane, a government concentrator with a specialty in international law, took a variety of language classes at Harvard, from a semester in advanced French to Spanish to one semester of Welsh. Since college, Kane has gained Arabic, Turkish, and Portugese...
...Yeah. For the Welsh...