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...John Howard recently regained control of the Australian parliament with his successful election to a fourth term as prime minister on Oct. 9. Howard’s Liberal National Party coalition managed a comfortable 5 percent victory over their younger Labor Party rival, Mark Latham—a candidate who had at one time stirred hope in the hearts of Australia’s political left...
...mulling in disillusionment over the list of social injustices that Howard has brought to Australia without a hint of remorse, I suddenly saw the silver lining of my country’s dire state of affairs. I began to feel a twinge of delight about his re-election as I began to think about the possible re-election of George W. Bush on Nov. 2. It’s not out of spite that I wish the same insufferable fate upon the U.S.; rather, it occurred to me that the only possibility of ending this lengthy stretch of neo-conservatism...
...similar chain of events took place in the U.S. The Democrats, too, charged onto the political scene last year with Howard Dean’s incendiary rhetoric against President Bush and his policies. Yet, in the end, they chose the mild-mannered and uninspiring candidate, one who never displayed any of the fire that Dean so briefly offered. In actuality, Kerry appears as a milder version of Bush, presenting many seemingly conservative policies that will not really address the problems of underprivileged America...
...tennis partners include house masters Howard Georgi and Sean Palfrey in addition to President Lawrence H. Summers, the big man on campus...
...SURPRISED BY HOWARD STERN'S DEFECTION? No. He's done pretty much all he can do on commercial radio. I understand that FCC chairman Michael Powell is preparing a space-based defense shield, where he's going to employ laser-equipped antisatellite satellites to shoot death rays at these Stern-carrying vehicles. And--I might as well share this with TIME--I'm also leaving Viacom. We're going to broadcast from the bottom of missile silos...