Word: englands
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Many Britons are familiar with that routine, which Johnson has honed in parliament as MP for the affluent constituency of Henley in southeastern England and as the occasional presenter of a TV game show. Readers not yet acquainted with his signature style will get a flavor of it from this verbatim response to TIME's question about whether he considers himself a conviction politician. (For full impact, the passage must be declaimed in the poshest of English accents.) "I certainly have a range of convictions. Not for anything serious. God. I don't have convictions actually...
...enjoyed over Labour since Margaret Thatcher was in power. Brown's government has been buffeted by a series of mishaps and blunders since the run two months ago on Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, which is now sustained by emergency funding from the Bank of England. A government department lost two discs containing the financial details of 25 million U.K. residents. A burgeoning scandal over fund raising has forced Labour's General Secretary, Peter Watt, to resign, and threatens to engulf other leading Labour figures. Police are investigating donations to the Labour Party from businessman David Abrahams...
Ethiopia-born and Tanzania-schooled Yoseph S. Ayele ’11 woke up to his first New England snowfall yesterday morning. “I looked out my window and saw cars covered in snow and was like ‘Wow! This happens in real life!’” Ayele said. “It’s just like a movie.” As the snow fell softly on the streets of Cambridge, covering the Yard in a layer of white, freshmen and upperclassmen alike bundled up in scarves, gloves, and puffy jackets...
...Thursday morning in March, 2002, John Darwin paddled his red kayak into the unforgiving North Sea near the industrial port of Hartlepool in northeastern England. He never returned home. In short order, an oar from Darwin's kayak washed up on a local beach. A search team of lifeboats, a Royal Navy ship and a Royal Air Force helicopter mobilized for a frantic, 16-hour search. His yellow life vest was found, but no trace of Darwin was discovered. When the splintered remains of his tiny vessel drifted ashore six weeks later, he was presumed drowned...
...chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year to be less than 0.001%. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this torrent of disaster is that nobody can pinpoint its root cause. "There are no demographic differences between Gnosall and the rest of England" that would explain the anomaly, Pikhart notes. "If anything, it is above average in terms of employment and other social indicators...