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...even as the takeover bid was welcomed by the Northern Rock board and the British government, shareholders small and large indicated they may block Branson's bid, a move that could protract efforts to save this high-profile casualty of the global credit crunch, and cause a full-blown political crisis for Chancellor of the Exchequer-turned-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who has already seen his reputation for fiscal prudence damaged by the affair...
...bill restricting marriage to one man and one woman; its intervention into dysfunctional Aboriginal communities; its sale of the final one-third of telecommunications firm Telstra; its takeover of the Murray-Darling basin; its use of antiterrorism laws to expel visiting doctor Mohamed Haneef, suspected of complicity in a British bomb plot. A scornful Bob Brown, leader of the Greens Party, continued the list. "Labor and the Coalition are exactly the same," he said, "on logging native forests, exporting more uranium, increasing coal mining and approving the Gunns pulp mill" in Tasmania. Cartoonists began drawing Rudd as a smaller version...
...ragging problem is a legacy of the British, who imported the practice to India from elite public schools back home. But while experts say extreme forms of hazing have all but disappeared in Britain, they continue in India and other Asian countries. Like mild hazing in the United States, ragging in its more innocent forms - students forced to address seniors as "sir," answering their questions and doing their menial chores - is defended as a way to create camaraderie and build character. In an essay about his experience at the prestigious St. Stephen's College in Delhi, writer Amitav Ghosh describes...
...Along with British royalty, beneficiaries include multinational food companies such as Nestle, Cadbury, Kraft; drug companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, and brewers like Heineken and Grolsch. Money even flows to tobacco giant Philip Morris, the oil behemoth Shell and even the airline Air France-KLM. British sugar giant Tate & Lyle alone received more than $443 million over a two-year period. TIME has recently chronicled similar patterns in U.S. farm subsidies...
...However, this is just the start of the process. E.U. governments and the European Parliament will decide on any reforms in the second half of 2008. As it happens, that is when France - the biggest recipient of E.U. farm subsidies - will hold the E.U.'s rotating presidency. German and British officials have already signaled their resistance to the plans, arguing that larger farms are more efficient and ought not be penalized...