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Power called Hillary Clinton a “monster” during an interview with a British paper last March...
...what high tech was to the last, then this is no time to scale back. With investors rightly spooked, however, governments on both sides of the Atlantic need to show more leadership. "Seen in the right way, people can learn important lessons from [the crisis]," says Nicholas Stern, the British economist whose 2006 report laid out the financial merits of tackling climate change. "Low carbon growth will be a very important engine of growth over the next 20 years...
...This year’s no different, and we might even be faster than we were a year ago. That alone, getting used to playing at that pace, is going to be a transition for all of them,” she adds.Lok was a member of the British Columbia Winter Games Zone team and played in both the Canada Winter Games and the National U-18 Championship. She also attended the Calgary National U-19 camps, earning the bronze medal while at the Junior Women’s Hockey League (JWHL) Challenge Cup.“She really wanted...
...National Defense University said while discussing the difference between colonial violence and tribal conflict. “It’s not simply about escalation, but about the notion of citizenship,” Elkins responded. “The idea that there were good things that the British did and bad things the British did and that we add them up and decide whether it’s good or bad is silly. It’s about political identity.” But the panelists agreed as to why each conflict is ignored in the reporting of history...
Pushing for an oil law was always a tough bet for the conservative Calderon, who has promised a series of reforms to modernize Mexico. When the petroleum industry was expropriated from American and British companies in 1938, it was trumpeted as one of the great gains of the Mexican revolution. "The oil is ours," cheered millions in celebrations across the country alongside promises of riches for all. Seven decades later, leaders used the same slogans to defend a state oil monopoly more closed to foreign investment than even that of Cuba or Venezuela...