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...still up for grabs, Campbell is permanently lumbered with his: as the Surgeon General of Spin. His skills made Labour electable and helped to keep the party in power, yet now they are vested with so many negatives that the new government's public-relations priority is to appear spin free. Brown's very first act on becoming Prime Minister was to repeal a ruling that allowed political appointees like Campbell to give orders to neutral civil servants...
...wire. The male students are fighting them off. "Emergency!" Hassan declares, and leaps to her feet. The teacher's lounge, a room of brightly dressed women, is doused in black as students and teachers don dark floor-length robes and headscarves that show only their eyes. Stout bamboo staves appear out of nowhere. A Sten gun flashes from beneath Hassan's robe...
Outside, male students are battling the rangers. "Emergency!" the seminary's headmistress, Umma Hassan, declares, and she leaps to her feet. Students and teachers don battle gear over their tunics and pants: dark, floor-length robes and headscarves that show only their eyes. Stout bamboo staffs appear out of nowhere. A Sten gun flashes from beneath Hassan's robe...
...major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic militants." And was it just a coincidence that two of the three vehicles were Mercedes? "Typically [terrorists] use throwaway vehicles, not a luxury car like that," worried CNN anchor John Roberts. What about the fact that the suspects appear to be doctors from outside the U.K.? Those did not fit recent patterns either. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "It is clear that we are dealing, in general terms, with people associated with al-Qaeda"--though his security chiefs conceded it was too soon to say for sure...
...Party of Japan revealed this afternoon that Fujimori had approached them earlier asking to run on their ticket, only to be rebuffed.) According to the Japanese government, however, Fujimori will still be allowed to run even if he remains under house arrest in Chile - but if elected, he must appear before the Diet within seven days, or face a summons and an investigation. "Logistics and how he would actually run is going to be discussed from now," admits a PNP spokesperson...