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...same time we have made it clear all along that we wanted to finish up the cooperation agreement one or two months after the board meeting.” The BRA board approved Harvard’s science complex on Oct. 3. Christopher M. Gordon, chief operating officer for the University’s Allston Development Group, said that while everything the community wants will not be attached to the science complex, Harvard’s master plan would give the community ample time to work out a plan for long-term benefits. “The master plan...
Embattled heads of government often find solace in foreign affairs. At a comfortable remove from the rough-and-tumble of 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...
...Rock board and the British government, shareholders small and large indicated they may block Branson's bid, a move that could protract efforts to save this high-profile casualty of the global credit crunch, and cause a full-blown political crisis for Chancellor of the Exchequer-turned-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who has already seen his reputation for fiscal prudence damaged by the affair...
...Gordon Adams, a veteran defense-budget expert who oversaw military spending from inside the Clinton White House, thinks Gates is overstating the case to put pressure on Congress. "Sad that the secretary seems to want to make civilians at the Defense Department pay the price for the Administration's political wrangle with the Congress on Iraq funding," he says. There are sufficient funding tricks that could be used to fund the entire military through March, he argues, rather than issuing warnings of impending layoffs that almost are certain never to happen. "The brinksmanship doesn't serve the nation well...
DEFINITION for-tris brit-in n. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plan to institute increased security measures at many of the nation's public places...