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...have a tendency to want to beat the system, in the elections, in sports accreditations, and even in civil-service exams." RICHARD GORDON, Philippine senator, on news that hundreds of applicants who took the Philippines' nursing-board exams had been leaked the test questions in advance...
...Cabinet minister, Stephen Byers, who called for inheritance tax to be abolished, arguing that it was now hurting middle-class homeowners, including those in marginal electoral constituencies. It was a politically charged call because Byers is a close ally of Blair and an outspoken opponent of his likely successor Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The danger for Labour, Byers told the British broadsheet the Sunday Telegraph, is that when Blair leaves office, as he has promised to do before the next election, "voters will feel that the pragmatic and modernizing approach of New Labour has gone with...
...York City's 52nd Street. By the time the club moved in 1965 to slightly larger premises round the corner at 47 Frith Street, Ronnie Scott's had become a British home away from home for American hardboppers like Zoot Sims, Dexter[an error occurred while processing this directive] Gordon and Sonny Stitt. And it's been known simply as the best jazz club outside of the U.S. ever since. Like the music itself, Ronnie Scott's has had to ride the tides of fashion, but the first principles devised by Scott and cofounder Pete King - a decent piano...
...GORDON SMITH, Republican Senator from Oregon, on the Democrats' defeating a G.O.P.-crafted bill that tied a minimum-wage increase for the working class--a favorite issue with the Dems--with a federal estate-tax decrease for the wealthy, a cause pushed by Republicans...
...Governor Mitt Romney is taking flak this week for his use of the term "tar baby" while addressing a group of Iowa Republicans on July 29 in a reference to Boston's troubled Big Dig highway project. Was he offensive in doing so? The head of the NAACP, Bruce Gordon, believes the governor "made a bad choice" in using such a term, the civil-rights leader told the Boston Herald. But Romney has his defenders as well, among them a minister in the Nation of Islam. Romney's spokesman apologized on his behalf, saying the governor simply meant to refer...