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...into her professional history. She tells a good tale, deftly mixing the grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...
...with questions that the handicrafts have to answer. What we need is a radical reduction of additional wage costs via reform of the pension and healthcare systems." Philipp may not get what he wants. Michael Sommer, head of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), is leading the opposition to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plans to trim back state benefits and make it easier for employers to lay off workers. Backed by left-wing members of Schröder's own ruling Social Democrats, Sommer warned there was a "danger" that the unions would break with the Chancellor...
After U.S. secretary of State Colin Powell spent a day in Berlin last week trying to patch up post-Iraq diplomatic damage, the question was clear: Does either side really want to make nice? Before Powell held talks with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he met briefly with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, with whom he was photographed shaking hands. Will the Chancellor enjoy the same photo op with President George W. Bush when the two attend summits in Russia and France in late May and early June? The two haven't spoken since November. The Germans have made it clear...
...earlier - which was spin designed to keep the pro-euro campaigners Blair has been stringing along since 1997 from despairing and cutting off euro campaign funds. To hose down fevered accounts about the volcanic feud between Blair and his longtime ally/rival and euroskeptic-in-chief Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing St. had to promise a specific date for the decision - June 9 - and declare that other, pro-euro Cabinet ministers would get their say too, as long as they first digested 2,500 pages - 15 kg - of economic analysis. And so a bold move that could have...
Boston University Chancellor and acting President John Silber announced early last month that B.U. had submitted a proposal to build a new research facility with BioShield funding...