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Reviews of inaugural pomp (appearances by celebrities Jessye Norman, Antonio Banderas, and Hootie and the Blowfish, as well as a parade) range from outrage at the "unseemly excess" (the Washington Post 's Tom Shales) to boredom, though Norman's rendition of "Amazing Grace" was praised in the Post as "stirring."
Haider, the author reminds us, praised the SS and has proposed expelling all immigrants and foreigners from Austria.
Libération praised the Ministry of Sport for having apparently decided "to burst the boil" of drug abuse, which has overshadowed the tour since 1966, when competitors went on strike rather than submit to drug tests.
In its main editorial, the Sun (which, on Murdoch's instructions, supports Tony Blair) praised the British prime minister's peace efforts but condemned Mitchell's draft as "an appeasement of IRA terrorism" that would "sign away the sovereignty of a part of the United Kingdom to Dublin.
Rather than confront the new moral questions raised by stem cell technologies, the witnesses praised them for abolishing the old moral questions.