Word: gordon
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...quite a bit of building at Temple,” Green says. “From what I’ve seen so far, it’s not going to be so much building, but more tightening the screws. Coach Gordon Graham has done a great job creating a competitive program and he’s won several Ivy League championships, so I’m basically coming in there and tightening the screws...
What Crimson fans will see immediately when Green takes over is a new focus on recruiting. Despite winning nine Ivy League titles at Harvard, former coach Gordon Graham—who stepped down after 17 years at the helm in April—was an all too familiar face within a Harvard program that had never managed great success outside the confines of the conference...
...second day as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown warned Britons, "We face a serious and continued security threat to our country," and his new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has already twice chaired the government's emergency response committee, Cobra. As investigators hurry to try to sift fact from a distracting mess of theories, they'll hope that Agent Luck remains on their side...
...photographers have been balancing on stepladders and defending their turf in uncertain weather for two days now, but still those encamped outside 10 Downing Street are cheerful. Not only are their editors hungry for images depicting the new government Gordon Brown promises to unveil in full in the next 24 hours, but the first and most prominent Cabinet appointment has provided them with a gag that, for the lensmen at least, has yet to wear thin. "Hello Darling!" they chorus raucously, as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his way past the press...
...hands, though sitting in different places; there are still more Scots (including Brown and Darling) and fewer women than their comparative proportions of the population, but in Jacqui Smith the U.K. now has its first female Home Secretary and, at 44, one of several youthful members of Team Gordon. Douglas Alexander, entrusted with International Development, and Ruth Kelly, now Transport Secretary, are both 39. James Purnell, the new Culture Secretary, and Ed Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister, are only...