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Still, Murdoch has shown himself more than willing to lose staggering amounts of money and engage in litigation in order to see his vision through or lay siege to his competitors. Sometimes his aggressive moves pay off (as in British pay cable operator BskyB) and sometimes they don't (as in TV Guide). Plus, with his cable operations showing robust growth, he has a cushion that few of his newspaper competitors possess...
Nick Griffin Party: British National Party Policies: Advocates repatriation of "nonindigenous" Britons, stopping immigration and barring asylum seekers unless citizens of France, Ireland or the Faroe Islands Quote: "Berlusconi has to be one of the great political geniuses" - Griffin admires Italy's premier, whose coalition includes the far-right Lega Nord...
...When asked if the Allies' effort was worth the estimated 20 million lives lost, Harry Patch, 111, the last surviving British veteran of World War I, replied, "It wasn't worth one." Patch died just days after fellow British WW I soldier Henry Allingham, 113, passed away...
...century, when police officers needed a way to quell street brawls that erupted between immigrants and nativist groups, like the 1849 riot at New York City's Astor Place Theatre that killed 22 people. Like all aspects of modern-day policing, it has its roots in British common law. While used in cases of individuals, disorderly conduct is just as common in group arrests--at, for instance, abortion clinics, rallies and political conventions. At New York City's 2004 Republican National Convention, more than 1,100 people were arrested in a four-hour period, many for disorderly conduct...
...Critics of the Indian police system point out that the force continues to operate on the basis of the Police Act of 1861, which India's British colonial rulers had modeled after the Royal Irish Constabulary - a security force they had deployed to subdue a restive population. "[After] independence, the style never changed, the subject-ruler relation has endured," says Sanjay Patil, program officer with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), whose book Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed - Moving from Force to Service in South Asian Policing is due to be released next week. The book holds the political culture...