Word: galleryful
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But Martel says he's in this thing for the long haul and will send books as long as Harper is in power. "He has to respond at some point. It would be unacceptable if a Canadian citizen wrote to the Prime Minister thoughtful letters with gifts twice a month...
Almost ten years to the day after he first set about trying to solve the Northern Ireland conflict, British Prime Minister Tony Blair leaned forward in his gallery seat at the moment of truth: In the hushed, wood-panelled chamber of the region's Assembly, onetime enemies formally pledged to...
He wasn't the only spectator with a lot invested in the outcome. Seven seats away and one row back from Blair, three ordinary looking men watched, expressionless, as the new government was formed, only smiling briefly to each other when former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly was nominated to join...
The IRA, in fact, came close to killing both of Blair's immediate predecessors, bombing a hotel where Margaret Thatcher was staying in 1984 and exploding mortars only yards away from where John Major was holding a cabinet meeting in 1991. That Blair shared the gallery with men once accused...
Well, not by me. I've been watching Blair practically since he entered politics--at first close up from the House of Commons press gallery, later from thousands of miles away. In nearly a quarter-century, I have never come across a public figure who more consistently asked the important...