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...polls and apparently with every prospect of winning his own mandate, Callaghan unexpectedly shied away from calling elections. Early in 1979, he lost a confidence motion and was forced to go to the country. His opponent, Margaret Thatcher, led her Tory party to victory and to an unbroken 18 years in office...
...better when I saw a Phillies hat walk through the door. Watching your team implode is a heartbreak that you have to experience to believe. Boston knows this, the Mets know this, and, perhaps most famously, the Chicago Cubs know this. Why? Simple: because theirs is the last great unbroken baseball curse, 2007 division title or no. Plus, they’re John Darnielle’s team. People started shouting for the anthemic “Cubs in Five” early on, and Darnielle finally gave in, despite the curse he feared. “This song...
...President Mahmoud Ahadinejad (who skipped the climate meeting) gave his speech at Columbia University in the afternoon, drawing crowds of delegates around nearby televisions. The essential deadlock that has held up stronger international action on climate change - striking an acceptable balance of responsibilities between developed and developing countries - remains unbroken, and there was little evidence that would change before the next major U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of the year...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...
...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Buñuel’s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...