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...from Italian media magnate-turned-premier Silvio Berlusconi to Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, played badly back home. But how much worse it looks for high-born Osborne in this new age of austerity when Tories are desperate to prove themselves in tune with the Man on the Clapham Omnibus - that's Britspeak for Joe the Plumber...
...estate is already reeling. Plans for two huge new skyscrapers in the City have been shelved, and the price of prime houses in central London has dropped 12% so far in 2008, according to the real estate firm Savills, while sales volume is down 50% in some areas like Clapham and Fulham...
...estate is already reeling. Plans for two huge new skyscrapers in the City have been shelved, and the price of prime residential houses in central London has dropped by 12% so far in 2008, according to realtors Savills, while sales volume is down by 50% in some areas like Clapham and Fulham. That's just the start. Vincent Tchenguiz, one of the biggest property moguls in the U.K., believes the real estate downturn will last five to seven years. "It's obvious that with a crippled financial sector the consequences won't be too good," he says. "London was helped...
...it’s really about students having an experience down there.”Ferrari also emphasized Harvard’s distinct advantages in aiding study abroad, including DRCLAS’s extensive contact and alumni network throughout Latin America.FROM THE LAB TO THE DANCE CLUBKatherine R. Clapham ’08, a biochemistry concentrator, traveled to Rosario, Argentina. Working in a lab suggested to her by a Harvard professor, she also found a non-Harvard affiliated program through the OIP that allowed her to take classes in Spanish and Argentinian art and literature. While living with her host...
Violent teenage gangs are not new to Britain: in 1953 a group of Teddy boys stabbed 17-year-old John Beckley to death near London's Clapham Common, and anyone who has suffered British football hooligans in the last 30 years - and that's a lot of people in a lot of places - know that "violent" and "British" are two words that belong with each other. But the new gangs appear to be uniquely deadly...