Word: commonwealthers
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...domestic politics, they can cultivate a statesmanlike image on the international stage. No such luck for Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister: a nasty scandal brewing in the U.K. followed him all the way to Uganda. It was there, he says, on the eve of his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach of the rules on party funding. Watts has admitted that he knew some donations originated from a wealthy businessman named David...
While yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the future of marriage in the Commonwealth remains somewhat murky...
...July 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court validated proposed constitutional amendments that would outlaw same-sex marriage, opening the door to a possible referendum that could overturn the 2003 ruling by re-defining marriage in the Commonwealth...
Maybe, but it doesn't ultimately matter. Immigration has done its work. It has changed Australia irrevocably. Nobody old enough to remember the dullness of its old monocultural cuisine can regret that. The British Empire has gone. The British Commonwealth is no longer, to put it mildly, a decisive linkage between nations. The Australia Act of 1986 formally defined Britain as a foreign country. Australia's economic links to Britain, though not insignificant, are small and dwindling in comparison with its trading ties to the Near North, once known as the Far East. Britain is in the European Union...
Though he hails from a political family, Sullivan’s personal experience in government is negligible. His one stint in elected office was in 1996, when he won a seat on the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners, holding it for just a few months before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts dissolved county governments...