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...founder of his own ism, she grew up in a small town, the daughter of a grocer and the inheritor of strong, traditional values. She saw nothing but infamy in what she regarded as socialism's sapping her country's strength. She determined to give enervated Britain a good shake and force it to become an economic and political world power once again. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, she embarked on policies that would encourage self-reliance and reward hard work. Her vision, she said, was "of a free, classless, open Britain...
...alliance against Saddam. The inscriptions are quickly erased, but government authorities know that all the whitewash in the world cannot obliterate the sentiment they express. "To be anti-U.S. and pro-Arab nationalism is what people in Syria have been groomed for, and it's very difficult to shake off," says a Western diplomat in Damascus. "This feeling is all of the government's making, and now it doesn't serve their purposes...
...first. But it didn't take long for a couple of sergeants to notice I was working very hard even if they didn't like me." By the mid-1980s, Watson had become a protege of Lee Brown, the city's first black police chief, imported from Atlanta to shake up a scandal-scarred, good-ole-boy department. As one of Brown's "kamikaze kids," Watson radiated an I'm-brighter-than-you-a re aggressiveness with comments like "that's a spurious argument." But as assistant chief Tom Koby, a reformist ally, puts it, "Betsy's a highflyer...
...both contests the lesson was the same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes...
...made good while staying on the Minneapolis scene -- in fact, he is the scene. But his new movie and album suggest he needs to shake himself loose the way he once shook up music...