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...county government was dissolved by the Commonwealth a few months after Eddie Sullivan was elected to the county board...
...image problem. Smart and engaging, he resisted siren voices that urged him to challenge Gordon Brown in June's contest to become Prime Minister, earning a plum Cabinet job in recompense. By any reckoning he's a heavy hitter. Yet Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs finds it tough to convince people that he's old enough to do his job. On a July trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, his first long-haul destinations since taking office, his youthful appearance provoked disbelief. "He's the Foreign Secretary? He's so young!" exclaimed social activist Atta...
...worry that the caretaker government is throwing its weight around a bit too much. Human Rights organizations inside and outside the country accuse the current government of torture, extra-judicial killings and the mass arrest of as many as 200,000 people. Diplomats and international organizations such as the Commonwealth have called for a swift return to democracy...
...court ruled in favor of Harvard, saying that despite its special powers, HUPD is not “an agency of the Commonwealth such that it becomes subject to the mandates of the public records...
Working under him at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN will be the newly ennobled Lord Malloch Brown, better known on the world stage as former U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown. Well-connected in Washington, Malloch Brown also ruffled some American feathers. Last year John Bolton, then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said Malloch Brown was the author of "of the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen." That comment followed a speech by Malloch Brown in which he criticized the U.S. government for permitting...