Word: skeptics
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Critics who damned Blair as Bush's poodle were eagerly looking for such signs. When Brown took over, they dared to hope that the British bulldog would now cock its leg on neocon policy. Miliband's own appointment hinted at a shift. He is seen as a skeptic on the war in Iraq, though he supported the government line - something he is reputed not to have done when Israel invaded Lebanon last year. "Blair's position was too close [to the U.S.], and now they have to find a way of getting some distance without causing a rift," says Charles...
...While the defections were numerous, the Republican leadership is confident that it will maintain enough votes to block all the controversial amendments, according to several GOP staffers. And, at least one skeptic left lunch pledging to wait until September: Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican...
...people want to fight global warming. According to Dingell, his shift from skeptic to activist has two explanations. "The scientific evidence is now generally accepted as being clear," he said. "The other thing that has transpired is that there's a public acceptance that something has to be done. And you'll remember that we work for the people...
...euros, and insists she will leave the controversial 35-hour week untouched. These proposals are fiscally irresponsible and are not calculated to increase private employment or the integration of minorities into the workforce. Royal is much more popular in the banlieues than the law-and-order immigration skeptic, Sarkozy, who has an unfortunate—and perhaps calculated—weakness for rhetoric with a racist edge. But Royal seems stuck in an antiquated and romantic socialism that offers minorities politically correct rhetoric in lieu of the prospect of genuine opportunity...
...purview as vice president to get together and work with student groups to do things that could be perceived as maneuvering to be UC president. And I’m not going to change who I am or what I should do as vice president just because people are skeptical of that.”“He doesn’t like people to assume that he’s going to be running [for UC president],” Murrell says. “He spends so much time working on what’s going...