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...revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron recently remarked: "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election next May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
...made some big saves.” The Big Green struck first in the game when Amanda Trunzo flicked a wrist shot into the top corner of the net for a power play goal 6:58 into the first period. But Harvard answered immediately. Just 22 seconds later, junior winger Sarah Vaillancourt took a Ryabkina pass following a faceoff into the Dartmouth zone and slipped the puck past Clemis to even the score. Both teams entered the game near or at the top of the ECAC standings and placed highly in the national rankings despite significant roster overhaul...
...Known as Pixie for his fresh looks, and Dr Death for his cold stare of disapproval, Rudd was said to have few friends in Canberra. Former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Mark Latham described him, respectively, as "a menace" and "a terrible piece of work." But by picking left-winger Julia Gillard as his deputy, he won over the factions - and got the leadership. He started campaigning the same day. Labor's poll numbers jumped from the low 40s to the high 50s; within three months Rudd led Howard as preferred P.M. By the time the election was called...
Until the end of his life, Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white Prime Minister, believed there was nothing wrong with his white-minority government's 14-year reign over the nation's 5million blacks. The right-winger declared independence from Britain in 1965, ruling Rhodesia despite raging civil wars, sanctions and global disdain. In 1980, after Smith finally bowed to international pressure, black nationalist Robert Mugabe was elected President and renamed the nation Zimbabwe. Smith...
...just days out from the Nov. 24 election, it's looking increasingly like the fellow right-winger whom President George W. Bush called his "Man of Steel" has, at the age of 68, taken on one locomotive too many. The Government remains six points behind Labor in the opinion polls, and bookmakers are offering long odds on a last-minute turnaround...