Word: ashdown
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Even Holbrooke, the chief architect of the Dayton peace agreement, is worried. "It's time to pay attention to Bosnia again, if we don't want things to get nasty very quickly," Holbrooke said in a letter co-signed by Paddy Ashdown, the former chief of Office of High Representative (OHR), the international supervising and administrative body in Bosnia. Both Holbrooke and Ashdown claim that Bosnia is regressing, and that the Western powers should swiftly and strongly engage to prevent a renewed conflict and ensure Bosnia's evolution into "a functional and E.U.-compatible state...
...startling departure from British political traditions, Brown's government promises to include ministers from outside Labour's ranks. Lord Ashdown, a Liberal Democrat and former leader of his party who went on to serve as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, revealed last week that he had turned down an approach to join Brown's new-look cabinet. Other candidates may have accepted. Brown told the BBC he was also hoping to "draw on some of the talents of our society who are not normally associated with party political events and forces." He'll unveil the lineup...
...Trying to become a centralized source, which is what Digital Universe is trying to do, is difficult. You really need to be the first to do it, like eBay, Google and Wikipedia," says Pete Ashdown, of XMission, a successful Internet service provider...
...since that time, and since then there’s been an ongoing missing person investigation,” said MIT Police Detective Bill J. Boulter. Boulter said that federal and local authorities have been notified, as well as all Boston-area universities. Barclay is a resident of Ashdown House, an on-campus dorm at MIT, but has no roommates, Boulter said. A news post on the MIT Web site describes Barclay as five feet 11 inches tall, with fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. He weighs 135 pounds and wears eyeglasses. Barclay was active on the MIT Parliamentary...
...office for breaking the rules and threatening the peaceful development of a multiethnic country. But now the U.S. and other Western countries plan to hand over responsibility for Bosnia to a European Union representative, possibly with strictly limited powers, by next July. Schwarz-Schilling, who succeeded Britain's Paddy Ashdown in the office earlier this year, has already adopted a more cautious approach than his predecessors. Bosnia's politicians need to "face the consequences of their own mistakes," he explained to Time, noting that a final call on whether or not the E.U. will wield executive powers will only...