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...pinnacle of the career path” that she has pursued for the past 25 years. But her early interests were not always tied to the esoteric world of university investment management that she has come to love.Jane Lisa Mendillo was born in 1959 in New Britain, Conn. Her father served as an executive for a medical technology company while her mother stayed home to care for Mendillo and her two brothers and two sisters. She attended the local public school and was passionate about classical music—an avocation that she still pursues today—and participated...
...However, the fringes also contain more disruptive elements. These range from the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns to pull Britain out of the E.U., to France's Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a comedian of Cameroonian descent whose declared primary aim is "wiping out Zionism" in the world. The only pan-European party, with 600 affiliated candidates standing across the E.U., is the fiercely Euroskeptic Libertas, led by Irish millionaire Declan Ganley. (Read "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...
Because of a prisoner-transfer agreement signed last month between Britain and Laos, Orobator may be able to serve her sentence back home instead of in one of Laos' notoriously decrepit prisons. Previous foreign inmates in Laos have complained of torture, inadequate food and routine overcrowding of cells...
...days before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Jahnke was acquitted of any wrongdoing for his symbolic act against the Chinese government. But how symbolic is it that in Britain - which prides itself on its history of democracy, free speech and debate - he found himself speaking out alone, and then sitting in a criminal court...
...Revelations that members from across the House of Commons have milked the lax expenses system have angered voters and mobilized party activists. Amid calls for radical reform of Britain's fustian political system, the next Parliament is already guaranteed to have a fresh face, with droves of MPs vowing not to run at the next election and others facing ouster by their parties. One veteran still refuses to budge, even as the calls for his head grow louder. Yet after the resignation of two Cabinet ministers in the past 24 hours, Brown's tenure at 10 Downing Street looks precarious...