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...political persuasions are having trouble finding their way out of the woods. By getting out in front on a good idea, Fini provided yet another reminder that Italy's fractious left has been rudderless since its crushing defeat by Berlusconi in 2001. In Britain, embattled Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has been gaining scant ground on Prime Minister Tony Blair - even though Blair's popularity has plummeted since the war in Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only...
...brooding, complex Brown hungers for Blair's job with a Shakespearean avarice; Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith calls their squabbling a "pantomime" that skews government policy to serve their ambitions. But at bottom they both know they must hang together or hang separately. This does not resolve the catch-22 Blair has been facing since the five tests were concocted: if the economics look bad he can't campaign; if he doesn't campaign the poll numbers won't move; if the poll numbers don't move, his allies lose heart and the chances of ever winning a referendum dissolve...
...When Iain D. Bridges ’04 and James M. McDonald ’04 set up a table in Lowell House to sell class rings last week, they didn’t think they were violating University policy...
...National). Nunn is to stage-direction what Sinatra was to lyric-singing: He's a great reader, finding the undertone in every phrase and pause in the text, and translating that understanding into space, time and gesture. Because Essie Davis impresses more as Blanche's sister Stella than Iain Glen does as Stanley (his body and body language are too refined for the character), this beautiful play becomes the story of two sisters: one enslaved to her man because of the great sex they share, the other in the thrall of a past she must relive and deny...
...Mohammed Khatami. Meanwhile, a constitutional crisis loomed after parliament passed a bill to strip the hard-line clerics of some of their powers. The bill must be approved by the Council of Guardians, the body whose powers parliament wants to reduce. BRITAIN Trouble at the Top Embattled opposition leader Iain Duncan Smith called on his beleaguered Conservative Party to "unite or die" in the face of a mounting challenge to his leadership. Senior Tories Kenneth Clarke and Michael Portillo, who both denied plotting to unseat Duncan Smith, were among eight M.P.s who controversially voted against the party line...