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...until David Cameron on Oct. 3 capped an unexpectedly successful Tory party conference by delivering an hour-long speech that won over doubters in his own party and, Tories now dare to dream, blew any potential electoral contest wide open. "Everyone who came here feared a general election," says Iain Dale, an influential Conservative blogger and commentator. "Now they're relishing...
...Atlantic did not participate). Even worse, Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the U.S. Department of Justice fined BA more than $500 million in August after determining that it had colluded with rivals to fix prices. Two former BA execs, commercial director Martin George and communications chief Iain Burns, resigned last year in connection with the affair; and criminal investigations into the collusion are continuing on both sides of the Atlantic. All this just as access to the transatlantic market out of Heathrow airport - currently restricted to BA and a few other carriers - is about to be blown...
...been the capital's center of jurisprudence. To the right and left and across the road from No. 18, attorneys peddle notions of justice and fair play. But visitors to 18 Doughty Street are advised to check such outmoded concepts at the door. "We provide some balance," says Iain Dale, the network's co-founder and star presenter, "but no impartiality...
...Tories to a consistent lead in opinion polls for the first time since Tony Blair's 1997 victory. That has infused Britain's Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle - are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron...
What Sirois and his postgraduate assistant Iain Jackson are challenging is the interpretation of a variety of classic experiments begun in the mid-1980s in which babies were shown physical events that appeared to violate such basic concepts as gravity, solidity and contiguity. In one such experiment, by University of Illinois psychologist Renée Baillargeon, a hinged wooden panel appeared to pass right through a box. Baillargeon and M.I.T.'s Elizabeth Spelke found that babies as young as 31/2 months would reliably look longer at the impossible event than at the normal one. Their conclusion: babies have enough built...