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...Alistair Campbell, who served as press secretary and communications director for British Prime Minister Tony Blair for nearly a decade, will visit Harvard from April 12 to 14. Campbell resigned last year amidst a firestorm over Britain’s decision to join the war in Iraq...
...Alistair Campbell, Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications director and the man accused of "sexing up" the British case for going to war in Iraq, did his best last week to defend himself and his boss. He appeared to be smooth and understated at the investigation into the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the former government weapons expert who shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then took his own life. Campbell had a denial ready for the central question of whether he had influenced...
...Testing how thoroughly I could ruin Trio's reputation as the smartest channel on cable, I got Andrew Cohen, vice president of Original Programming, to green-light Good Clean Porn, a series where I would show adult films without the sex scenes and introduce them, Alistair Cooke style, sitting in a leather chair and smoking a pipe...
Even petition organizer Alistair M. Rampell ’03, whose meeting with Lewis concerning the issue erupted into a shouting match, admits that “it’s kind of hard to look back and say it would have been better, because you don’t know what would have been”—though he maintains that he would have still preferred the larger groups...
...good ingredients served in daunting sizes, but things have gotten out of hand when your local boozer starts offering "a flaky pastry pillow filled with cod, hoki [sic] and salmon." And it's not reassuring when that exotic-sounding concoction turns out to be a humble fish pie. Alistair Aird, editor of the Good Pub Guide, has watched in dismay as British pubs have caught the disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation. In the 2003 edition of his guide, he strikes back, skewering pubs for misleading customers with fancy names and elaborate descriptions like "fresh tuna on a futon...