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...Mills' contributions to the marriage and on their future needs. Mills claimed that McCartney stopped her from pursuing a U.S. television career, including work on the Larry King show, which "would have made millions." Bennett doesn't mince words. "I am prepared to assume in the wife's favour that Larry King did float the idea of the wife doing further interviews on his show. But I doubt it got any further than that...
...Think of the consequences if Robert’s Rules of Order were to be abandoned in favour of willy-nilly consensus building! The very purpose of any committee—to encourage safely contained confrontation—would be undermined completely if the objective suddenly became finding ways to agree about things. Worse still, a lack of vote tallies leaves some room for interpretation—those who rely on committees to make decisions for them might have to decide things for themselves. That would sink the Harvard administration once...
...Despite its history, in 1966 the government announced it would merge St. Pancras with Kings Cross, demolishing the former in favour of a sports center and social housing. But a campaign led by the then poet laureate Sir John Betjeman galvanized public opinion already stung by the demolition of the nearby old Euston station a few years earlier...
...newspaper declared in its Friday headline, “Talk of Harvard return was a joke, says Ignatieff,” and reported Ignatieff as saying, “Were I to lose the election, I would teach at University of Toronto and you would do me a big favour in making that clear. I am not coming back here [to Harvard], win, lose or draw.” Ignatieff clarified his position yesterday in a second interview with the Crimson. “Here’s the straight scoop. I am on leave technically for 6 months [until...
...argue—as the Chinese do—in favour of complete state sovereignty, but a state that is actively killing a segment of its population has lost its right to sovereignty. It’s actually quite simple: genocide is a crime of the highest order, and we have a full right—some even say duty—to stop...