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...that's not to say a hung Parliament itself wouldn't hit the pound hard. Long viewed as almost certain winners of an election expected in May, the Conservatives have squandered their double-digit lead in recent weeks. In fact, in a YouGov poll published in Britain's Sunday Times on Feb. 28, the Tories' margin over the governing Labour Party had diminished to just two percentage points, raising the specter of no party winning absolute control of Parliament. The problem: Britain has had little practice at coalition government in recent years. Its last attempt - more than 30 years...
...Hall. Kim’s research on the expansion of judicial power led him to visit the ILS building to obtain some Chinese language material. ILS is connected to the main library by a bridge and—unbeknownst to Kim—has different hours of operation than certain floors of the main building...
...want to make certain that they understand that Harvard is a good place for students of all sexual orientations,” Fitzsimmons said. “We do everything in our power to make sure we’re reaching out to those students, given the discrimination in many high schools that LGBT students face...
...Barack Obama or Harry Reid or even a member of Congress. In fact, odds are you've never heard of Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian. But when it comes to the complex budgetary procedure known as reconciliation, the filibuster-proof process which Democrats hope to use to make certain fixes to the Senate bill, Frumin is "the defense counsel, he's the prosecution, he's the judge, he's the jury and he's the hangman," says Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Republican on the Budget Committee...
...verified or to support an argument, but rather to endow his movies with an air of verisimilitude—’truthiness’, if you will. This aura of truth is just one thread in the tapestry of feelings his films weave in order to provoke a certain emotional reaction. This is how art operates, but it is an unwieldy method to make a nuanced intellectual argument or initiate social change...