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...election was a disaster for Labor, which suffered its most stinging defeat since 1918. Michael Foot, 69, the donnish, white-haired historian and critic who would have become Prime Minister had Labor won, held on to his parliamentary seat at Blaenau Gwent in Wales, but is expected to resign soon as Labor's leader...
After Callaghan lost to Thatcher in 1979, Foot became a compromise choice as party leader over Centrist Denis Healey, 65. Yet the party wound up more bitterly divided than ever. Jenkins and a score of others from Labor's right wing quit in 1981 to form the S.D.P. Since then...
...such a manner: his characters grate against our hearts and reason, and yet, as much as we may wish to do so, we are unable to dismiss them as insane. Repeatedly denigrating himself as “the new boy” and just a “flat-foot,” Martens accepts his share of responsibility for the murders he helped commit as part of the secret police. He does not attempt to pass the blame off onto the inevitability of the system.It is unclear to what extent the characters in the novella are conscious...
...Although most of the shirts had been made for six-foot-four, 310-pound tackles, rather than three-foot-eight, 45-pound elementary schoolers, no one complained about the tailoring. That's because unlike most of clothing worn in this part of the world, the Patriots gear was brand-new - a wonderful novelty, even if everyone in the village now has the same shirt...
...many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot where in 1972, back in the days when they were anti-establishment foot soldiers in the George McGovern campaign, the young, long-haired Bill Clinton and his bespectacled law student wife Hillary drank beer and talked passionately about politics. Almost four decades later, many of their friends will be amongst the Democratic power players who get one of the exclusive seats at the debate nearby...