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...together with the United States. “The main reason for this European Treaty is a desire for a more cohesive Europe and a more cohesive Europe in foreign affairs,” Ahern said. Sile de Valera, an IOP fellow and the youngest female member of parliament in Irish history, introduced Ahern, who currently fills the position held three times by de Valera’s revolutionary grandfather, Eamon de Valera. Ahern first spoke in praise of the peace efforts between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. “Ireland is now at peace, and it?...
...September 2007, Fukuda's team has managed to look even more inept and out of touch than Abe's on issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled up in parliament by resurgent opposition politicians. Recent polls have put Fukuda's public approval rating at about 25% - lower than Abe's before he resigned after less than a year in office. "When [Fukuda's] approval breaks below 20%, he's really in deep trouble," says Gerald Curtis, a political-science professor...
...Delhi is well maintained, relatively clean and is probably one of the best. Unlike most hospitals, which get their funding from state governments, the RML is financed directly by the central government and caters to the thousands of public servants and senior government officers, including members of Parliament, who are lucky enough to have state-funded medical insurance. But its high standards are also a magnet for sick people for hundreds of miles around. About 60% of the 4,500 patients the hospital sees every day travel not from the New Delhi area but from neighboring states. Some of them...
...didn’t realize how aware Harvard students are of other faiths.”Zearott herself answered one such obscure question, when the moderator asked for “the name of the first Hindu sage to come to America in 1893 for the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.” Zearott correctly answered Swami Vivekananda, a fact that she said she learned in a course at Harvard. She attributes much of her knowledge of religions to Harvard classes.“I’ve always been interested in different religions and how people understand...
...trying to scare Londoners off voting for Johnson by suggesting that the Conservative is the funnier man, perhaps even the ultimate joke candidate. Billboard posters and 4.2 million postcards being distributed by Livingstone's campaign urge voters to imagine Johnson, despite more than six years as a member of parliament still best known for his many comically chaotic appearances on British TV game shows, in charge of London. "Suddenly he's not so funny," warns Livingstone's campaign literature...