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Lapage, now stroking for the Crimson varsity eight, rowed for Britain??s Shrewsbury School while Jordan, currently sitting six seat of the same crew, rowed for Eton College a few hours south...
Berwick will bring expertise in health care reform to the position, as he received his honorary knighthood for his efforts in improving Britain??s National Health Service under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...England? It’s hard to say; across the pond, the movement doesn’t get much press. Of far more interest in the past few weeks has been the Cadbury-Kraft merger, generally accepted as a regrettable, yet inevitable, victory of Yankee spray cheese over Britain??s more discerning palate. America is viewed with a sad indulgence—a nostalgia for the once-upon-a-time when it was an unruly little brother rather than a cold, efficient capitalist machine—even if it did bite the hand that fed it crumpets...
Hamburger wrote in his e-mail to King’s College administrators that their decision to “eliminate the study of paleography in Great Britain?? would represent “an unforgivable act of cultural iconoclasm, nihilism, philistinism and shortsightedness...
...same nations complaining of obstruction, however, are themselves (surprise, surprise) guilty of adding hot air to the debate. Great Britain??s climate secretary Ed Miliband made headlines in England for his acknowledgment of the obvious: “People will be rightly furious if agreement [at the conference] is not possible.” His countryman Tony Blair has chimed in as well, demanding a hasty resolution. Yet the EU has pledged less than $10 billion to short-term climate aid for developing nations. To put that in perspective, Japan has individually promised $15 billion. Miliband might...