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...British Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy, Alastair Campbell was, for almost ten years, his most trusted adviser and confidant. One of the principal architects of New Labour, the reinvention of the ossified party of the working classes as a modern, centrist party with broad appeal, press chief Campbell was one of the biggest beasts to stalk the corridors of Westminster. His influence was immense, shaping and communicating Blair's efforts to overhaul the country-in attitude, as well as in its economy and public services-much as they had overhauled their party. An eyewitness...
...with an economic strategy for Assynt's land, believes this can change. He has asked the Scottish Crop Research Institute to find a crop to be farmed for biodiesel, and is enticing big companies to sponsor the planting of woodlands to offset carbon emissions. A marina is being built. Alastair MacAskill, the local butcher and chairman of the Assynt Foundation [EM] the residents' association that now owns the land [EM] knows this is only the start. "We thought Vestey would be there forever. It just shows how fragile the connection of land to landlord is. Now we've removed that...
...Alastair Campbell...
...Harvard University Department of Astronomy lost a star on Oct. 3, 2005. Menzel Research Professor of Astrophysics Alastair G.W. Cameron died of heart failure in Tucson, Arizona. He was 80 years old. Cameron was an active member of the Harvard faculty for 26 years. He started as an associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and served as Department of Astronomy chair from 1976-1982. Cameron’s primary research interests were the structure and evolution of solar nebula and the formation and sequence evolution of low-mass stars, as well as their nucleosynthesis. He also studied...
HERE'S A QUESTION YOU PROBABLY HEAR ALL THE TIME: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY? [Laughs.] I read a book recently about Toyota's lean production methodology, which is very interesting. I'm reading a new Alastair Reynolds science-fiction book about Earth being destroyed by nanobots. And I've been reading about rocket-engine development...