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...start of the U.S. surge last summer, morale among British forces was undermined by mounting casualties - three-quarters from improvised explosive devices - and public skepticism about the NATO mission. Operation Moshtarak, this spring's offensive led by U.S. troops, has helped buck up spirits but misgivings remain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied that the decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud and intimidation...
...Conservative leader David Cameron presented his party's manifesto in a derelict power station festooned with the word "CHANGE." He has promised Britons "change [they] can believe in" and at the launch reworked another familiar phrase, saying, "Yes we can ... make things better without spending more money." Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, chose a rural backdrop for Labour's manifesto unveiling on Monday: a sunlit cornfield, the grain undulating in a virtual breeze. Britain? This looked more like Oklahoma. (See pictures of the U.K. election campaign...
...Liberal Democrats have nothing to lose and much to gain. As for Labour, its coffers are empty, and debates, paid for by the broadcasters, represent free air time. "I relish the opportunity to debate the issues and to set out my vision," said Brown. (See a TIME video with Gordon Brown...
Albert F. Gordon ’59, a significant donor to the Murr Center and self-described “business friend” of Bajwa, said that alumni have leveraged their financial influence to engineer the end of Bajwa’s tenure at Harvard...
Bajwa refused to comment on these allegations, and players interviewed for this article said they did not believe them to be true. An e-mail sent by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann to Gordon said that the decision not to renew Bajwa’s contract was not discriminatory...