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...Brown, who was once so keen to crow about a successful decade spent steering the British economy, the turnabout is hard to stomach. Opposition pols have been keen to make hay. "We will not back nationalization," Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said. "We will not help Gordon Brown take this country back to the 1970s." While that's unlikely to happen - it's been years since Labour could pretend to be a Socialist party - Brown's government will be hoping the same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne...
HANKS Look, it's very basic. The girls had to be naked. It's not fair that I don't have to be naked, you know? Come on! Turnabout is fair play...
...While lionized in the West for his anti-communist stance, Yeltsin is remembered at home for ushering in an era of economic and social catastrophe, rampant kleptocracy and a series of geopolitical humiliations at the hands of the West. Rising oil prices have allowed Putin to oversee a dramatic turnabout in Russia's economic position, fueling an increasingly assertive, and domestically popular, economic and political nationalism. Whether challenging the U.S. and its allies on Kosovo, opting out of previous arms agreements with Washington to protest U.S. missile defense plans, or using energy exports as a pressure-point against former Soviet...
...deal welcomed by President Bush on Wednesday, North Korea has agreed to the internationally supervised dismantling of its nuclear program. It's certainly a foreign policy triumph for the Administration, and a remarkable turnabout of a situation in which the hope for denuclearization appeared forlorn only a year ago, when North Korea tested a nuclear weapon. The latest deal, however, required a change of heart not only on the part of North Korea, but also by the Bush Administration. Persuading North Korea to put down its nukes required reversing the position Washington has adopted since the advent of the current...
...meaning when--Apple drops DRM for good, the playing field on the hardware side will get a whole lot more level and the iPod will have a whole lot more serious competition. Zunes, Sansas and other exotic digital fauna will all be able to play songs from iTunes. Turnabout, as the saying goes, is fair play...