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...also has a lot to do with why Brown opted for the beach houses and tearooms of Southwold. When the economy you've spent more than a decade running starts to tank, voters probably won't appreciate it if you head off to Greece or the Caribbean. A week in unglamorous Southwold also fits well with the slight air of austerity that Brown has used to mark a break with his flashier former boss and rival Blair, famous for his breaks in aging pop star Cliff Richard's Barbados house and Bee Gee Robin Gibb's Florida mansion. Britain...
...spent two months in Pakistan earlier this year and took an informal poll among the few hard-line militants who would talk to me. I spent one evening with the survivors of Islamabad's Red Mosque, an armed group that fought it out with the Pakistani army last year...
...understand their needs and expectations. As a Mexican national, Frenk will be one of two deans at Harvard who hails from a country other than the United States.Mohsen Mostafavi, who has served as dean of the Graduate School of Design since last January, was born in Iran and spent a significant portion of his career in Britain. Additionally, the outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, is a native of India.The naming of a replacement for Bloom marks the end of a chapter in Harvard history, as Bloom...
...Even if Senator John McCain wins the presidency, more legislation would likely be enacted; not only does the Republican agree with Democrats on key issues such as global warming, immigration and stem-cell research, but he has spent nearly three decades in the Senate. McCain has said that if elected, he would move to pass $1 trillion in corporate tax cuts and make Bush's income tax cuts permanent, cut wasteful government spending and pass a gas tax holiday, and seek to allow offshore drilling to help ease the energy crisis - almost none of which has support from Democrats. Obama...
...measure the fiscal responsibility of a candidate's plan is to compare the total amount of government revenue from taxes they plan to raise against the gross domestic product, which is the sum total of the nation's economic activity. According to congressional accountants, the Federal Government spent about 20% of the GDP in 2007, while taking in 18.8% of the GDP in taxes. The difference between spending and tax receipts - about $162 billion - was the budget deficit...