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...fact, while the parties may be jointly lifting the national mood, the bipartisan spirit burns no brighter in Westminster than in Washington. Even as they declared a truce over the financial meltdown, British pols were trading blows. "We meet at a time of national anxiety," Osborne told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Sept. 29. He asserted that his party was determined to make rich bankers pay for the mess they had helped to create. "Unlike New Labour we are not bedazzled by big money," he said...
...would have been any the wiser if Osborne had not leaked the content of a private conversation with Mandelson to a journalist. Mandelson, he said, had "dripped pure poison" about Blair's successor, Brown. In the normal course of events, that would scarcely have merited a paragraph in the British press. Mandelson and Brown had been embroiled in bitter feuding since the mid 1990s, when Mandelson backed Blair over Brown for the Labour leadership. But Brown's surprise move to recall Mandelson to government trained the spotlight back on their relationship...
...plays have ranged from politically loaded docudramas, like David Hare's Stuff Happens--an account of the Bush Administration's run-up to the war, with a focus on British Prime Minister Tony Blair's role as overzealous cheerleader--to angry satire, like Embedded, a biting if overwrought send-up of the selling of the war, featuring Administration stand-ins with names like Rum-Rum and Gondola, written and directed by Tim Robbins for his L.A.-based Actors' Gang. The war has been a jumping-off point for psychological family drama (Christopher Shinn's Dying City, about a war widow...
...well as from the hothouse of off-Broadway--represent an artistic chronicle of the evolution of the war, both on the ground and in Americans' hearts and minds. As the war drags on but recedes from the headlines, the political satires of the early years (like Embedded and the British screed The Madness of George Dubya) have been supplanted by more rueful--one might say resigned--plays, which shift the focus from macro to micro: the men and women who are actually doing the fighting...
...Booker Prize. Ghosh juggles four or five storylines, a handful of countries, and a variety of languages (both official and pidgin) across 500 pages—and “Sea of Poppies” is only the first book in a planned trilogy. In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Ghosh called the books the Ibis trilogy, after the former slave-ship that is this novel’s real principle character. Throughout the whole novel, there is the delicate tension that comes from knowing that the main event is yet to come, a state of pleasant anxiety...