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Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his increasingly panicky Labour Party might have thought they bottomed out earlier this month, when the party lost the London mayoralty and suffered its most disastrous municipal election result across the country in decades. But yesterday it got even worse. The resurgent Conservatives stomped to victory in a by-election in Crewe, a working-class town in northwestern England that has been an unsinkable Labour bastion since World War II. The sheer size of the victory - 17.6% of the electorate switched from Labour to Tory since the last election...
...would be naive and insulting and stupid to try and pretend this hasn't been a enormous blow for the Labour Party," says Labour MP Stephen Pound of the Crewe result. "But we're not going to turn it round by defenestrating our leader, or trying to go downmarket after the Tory vote. To get rid of the Prime Minister would simply underline any accusations of division in the party and utterly guarantee we would lose the next election." Hardly a ringing endorsement, but perhaps an indication that for better or worse, Brown could have more months or even years...
...surcharge could also further snarl an already arduous check-in process, and result in an upsurge in carry-on bags, meaning longer security lines and more competition for space in overhead bins. "I think you'll see passengers turning on other passengers," says Vicki Morwitz, a marketing professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, who thinks introducing the bag charge will be less palatable than rolling the cost into a pricier ticket...
These kinds of feedback are important because the process of taking a class should be not only about learning the material, but also learning from your mistakes. The end result should not be a mysterious grade, but a body of feedback that teaches you but also prepares you for future, more difficult work. Since in many classes 80 or 90 percent of your grade is determined during reading period and finals, the lack of feedback on the last work of the semester is particularly egregious. Never knowing why you got the grade you did, what you did well, and what...
...Official commentators covering the match tried drumming up Russian support for Chelsea on the grounds of it being owned by oligarch Abramovich, which, they suggested would mean it could bring Russia a victory by proxy. But the proxy result was a defeat. Much as connoisseurs enjoyed the often dramatic match, a touch of bitterness lingered. A friend summed it up succinctly: "That's what Abramovich spent a billion dollars on? To buy these blue-clad fumblers? What a waste of our money...