Mama Mia! Politicians are flirting with disaster
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It's a Fellini-meets-Seinfeld moment. Veronica Berlusconi sends a letter to La Repubblica, the big Rome daily, charging her 70-year-old husband, the former Italian prime minister, with indecent flirting.Comment
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Four documentaries with attitude are helping heat up the political season.
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Your virtual candidate calling Comment Politicians long ago gave up on politics. Instead of articulating great ideas, the choice that faces voters today is between identikit managerial bureaucrats who've never had a job outside politics. Most of their adult lives have been spent in the hermetic world of wonkdom. So it's little wonder, then, that they have trouble distinguishing between fiction and reality.â¦
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Hurricane Katrina convulsed the nation with its massive destruction. Now Democrats believe it could wreak havoc again in a tide of voter resentment that could sweep Republicans from power.
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Aborigines on Tuesday said the government was trying to steal their land under the guise of responding to a crisis that Prime Minister John Howard has labelled Australia&#39;s own Hurricane Katrina.
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A big flood, new taxes, and ugly dolls. What could be worse for a downtown?
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âFoot-in-mouthâ senator has found a new strategy to stay on message.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 24--GULFPORT -- Compared with storm recovery she deemed "a joke" in New Orleans, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said Mississippi should be praised.
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One leading candidate has been debilitated by what he said was an attempt to poison him.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was accused Wednesday of playing politics with fear and using the threat of terrorism to boost its chances of re-election. Political rivals are outraged at comments by ...
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Storm clouds, filled with politically charged lightning, are rumbling over the federal government these days.
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Bangladeshâs military-backed government is trying to oust two of the nationâs most prominent politicians. Theyâre not going quietly.
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An unusually harsh series of storms paralyzes the nation's power and transportation networks, exposing the vulnerabilities of an economic juggernaut. Can the government cope with the crisis?
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Comment is free: David Clark: Ignore the hysteria and hyperbole - the government's main problem is a collapse of morale among its MPs
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There are some indications that frustration over higher heating bills may spill over into the political arena in November.
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Whitehall departments are undermining government attempts to encourage people to take climate change seriously, MPs say
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Environment contract party - will it have cake? An attempt by a UK cabinet minister to discuss proposed environment policy using a wiki has ended in embarrassment after pranksters made merry at the expense of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra).â¦