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...presuming Brown weathers two by-elections sparked by the expenses scandal. Michael Martin, a Labour MP serving in the party-neutral role of Speaker, or chair, of the Commons, steps down later this month. He was forced out after MPs' protests that he was an obstacle to parliamentary reform. Ian Gibson resigned his marginal seat after a Labour committee examining the expenses revelations ruled he could not stand for the party at the next election. (See pictures of polarizing politicians at LIFE.com...
...intake of 75 will be eventually grown to 450 members, but capped at that. "Because we offer a bespoke relationship tailored to a member's level of wine expertise and requirements, this is not a scalable business," says Sarment's U.K. managing director Niels Sherry, who used to run Ian Schrager's hotels. "There should be nothing...
...downturn in global trade has delayed action on those ideas. So far the only evidence of the shift is in consultant surveys like Ferreira's. In Beijing, though, the downturn has brought its own attitude adjustment. "The Chinese response is 'We are too coupled to the American economy,'" says Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consulting firm. That has led to more domestic spending by the government and attempts to boost Chinese consumers' spending. True, neither is necessarily bad news for foreign firms. It has, however, also meant an increasing reluctance to let U.S. companies call...
...older sister Marion (Katherine Parkinson, whose voice is as treacherously sweet as cotton candy) is halfway to becoming a Miss Havisham. The youngest Whittaker is Hilda (Kimberley Nixon), who is both jealous of Larita and bewitched by her and is, in her troublemaking, a clear precursor to Briony of Ian McEwan's Atonement, written nearly 75 years after Coward's play...
...already received bids for the property, according to FCL President Ian T. Simmons ’98-’00. Simmons spoke at the Council meeting on Sunday and said that the foundation wanted to sell the property to the UC because the organizations shared common goals...