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...Brown, who was once so keen to crow about a successful decade spent steering the British economy, the turnabout is hard to stomach. Opposition pols have been keen to make hay. "We will not back nationalization," Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said. "We will not help Gordon Brown take this country back to the 1970s." While that's unlikely to happen - it's been years since Labour could pretend to be a Socialist party - Brown's government will be hoping the same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne...
...after-dinner conversation wades too deeply into politics, Denis is likely to excuse himself to watch television. Even when Thatcher is finished with postprandial conversation, the day is not over: she sifts through the papers in her red leather briefing boxes before turning out the light. Weekends are usually spent at Chequers, the Prime Minister's official country residence in Buckinghamshire. While Denis practices his putting on the lawn, his wife writes letters or reads (her favorite author: John le Carre). But even in the solitude of Chequers, she will often invite Cabinet members or fellow politicians for Sunday lunch...
Australia last week sent an extra 200 troops to join its existing contingent of 780 men, who, along with 170 New Zealanders, make up the ISF. The men they are pursuing spent the past two years under the leadership of rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, who was killed during what the government labeled an assassination attempt on Ramos-Horta. Under Reinado's leadership, the rebels were regularly hunted by the ISF's highly trained special forces but always managed to stay one step ahead of them...
Asked if the ISF will catch Salsinha and his men, politician Leandro Isaac, who once supported Reinado, smiled. "For over 20 years, they have experience with the Indonesian army chasing them," says Isaac, who spent two months in the jungle with Reinado and Salsinha. "The reason why they cannot catch them is they don't have any cooperation with the local community." Isaac has since fallen out with the rebels over their armed activities, but says the single battalion of Australian troops hunting them are wasting their time. "There are the hills, the mountains, caves, rivers to hide in. Indonesia...
...nanoscience researcher, he spent his deanship deepening and broadening the SEAS faculty, which is now 50 percent larger than it was in 1998, according to a University statement. Sponsored research has grown 60 percent during his tenure, the statement said...