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Torn and wrinkled in several places, the shirt was half covered in blood, now brown from...
Embattled heads of government often find solace in foreign affairs. At a comfortable remove from the rough-and-tumble of domestic politics, they can cultivate a statesmanlike image on the international stage. No such luck for Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister: a nasty scandal brewing in the U.K. followed him all the way to Uganda. It was there, he says, on the eve of his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach...
...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...
...making the saves she needs to make.”Kessler’s ability to make clutch saves with the game on the line has also gained the confidence of her teammates. Cahow points to a play in the Crimson’s win over Brown on Nov. 17, where Harvard held a tight 1-0 lead in the second period.“[Kessler] made a split save that was so incredible,” Cahow says. “There was no way that puck wasn’t going in. In that moment I realized that...
...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 of Howard. Sydney student Hugh Atkin posted...