Word: chris
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...when Tony Blair's Labour government came to power, the ground was shifting. Chris Smith, the only out MP for 14 years, was named Minister of Culture. "The really astonishing thing was that no one pointed out a gay man had been appointed to the Cabinet," he says from Britain's Environment Agency, which he now runs. The same year in Exeter, a constituency in southwestern England, Conservative party candidate Adrian Rogers attacked his openly gay opponent Ben Bradshaw by describing homosexuality as "a sterile, disease-ridden and godforsaken occupation." Voters awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggest...
...story is a lot more complicated than that. "There's a big range of very powerful interactions in nature," says Chris Field, director of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University. "It's very risky to make strong projections based on single-factor explanations." (See TIME's complete coverage of the Copenhagen climate conference...
...addition to captaining the 2009 Crimson to the third round of the NCAA tournament, Akpan holds the school record for points scored at 127 and assists at 33. He remains tied with Chris Ohiri, the namesake of Harvard’s field, as the all-time leading goal scorer with 47 goals...
...surprise twin retirements announced this week by Democratic Senators Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota cap a dismal month for Democrats. Early in December, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved to stem the tide of lower-chamber retirements after four veteran moderate, so-called Blue Dogs announced that they would not run for re-election. Then, instead of a retirement, another Blue Dog - this time Alabama freshman Parker Griffith - jumped ship to the Republican Party. Only a year after celebrating an expected six GOP Senate retirements in 2010 and nearly a dozen in the House (that number...
Those two nearly cancelled out the scoring of the Redhawks’ top two scorers: Garcia and Chris Gweth, who scored 17 points. But the Crimson had Lin, who once again led the way with 21 points, four steals, two rebounds, and three assists...