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...this won't help the hardworking lower-middle classes who are Labour's core voters. "This plan would 'dumb down' our people," he argues. For many opponents, the fine points of policy aren't the point. Some want to destabilize Blair to help his chief rival Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Six years into government, there's a sizable clutch of resentful ex-ministers and others stuck on the backbenches. And some Labour M.P.s have wanted to signal deep frustration that Downing Street policy wonks don't consult them enough before uncorking big bills. "There's been...
...recent years, Zimbabweans could scarcely believe their luck last week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare quickly asked the courts...
...commuter deduction - from 40? per km to 30? - has big carmakers seething. "It's definitely not positive for the car industry," said Thomas Mickeleit, spokesman for Volkswagen. On the plus side, Harald Grunert, who owns three restaurants, said he thinks the Chancellor's plan to cut long-term jobless benefits - and force the unemployed to take any offered job - will make it easier for him to find staff. Now comes the hard part: convincing Germans worried about losing their jobs to open their wallets. Through The 3-G Looking Glass The emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services...
...Dudley S. Mulcahy, real estate chancellor of the Archdiocese, said no decisions have yet been made...
Gordon Brown, chancellor of the Exchequer, spearheaded the development of the scholarship for £10,000 which will go to people starting entrepreneurial projects in deprived areas of the United Kingdom...