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...there's one federal institution that industry pays more attention to than the White House, it's the Pentagon. Indeed, the impact of the British military's call in February was immediately recognizable: one day after the publication of the "Defense Technology Plan," the august think tank the Royal United Services Institute held a conference in London, sponsored by defense giant BAE Systems, called "Alternative Energy and Sustainability for the Military." Representatives from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and various academic institutions were in attendance. "Look, we can be agnostic about the politics of climate change," MOD science director Stein said...
...cricket commentator G. Rajaraman says individual players may want out, but their number is unlikely to be significant. "If they want to pull out, franchisees will understand," he says, "But I believe players will come." Rajaraman points out that last year's IPL match in Jaipur between the Rajasthan Royals, led by Australian bowling great Shane Warne, and the Bangalore Royal Challengers with players from South Africa, England and Australia, went ahead despite a deadly terror attack in the city just days before. "At one level, it's a game people love and will do anything for," Rajaraman says...
...into British regional theater - and stayed for decades. "I took jobs other people would not," he says. "I wanted to find out how to act. I learned on the job." By the 1970s, McKellen and many of his contemporaries were often to be found in one place: at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon, where the bard was born. There, in 1976, on a bare stage in a tin hut called The Other Place that could seat 150, McKellen and Dench gave two of the great stage performances of all time. "No interval, but straight through," says...
...very shocked to hear the head of government declare before a large social movement has even begun that he will not change anything," added Socialist Party official and former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, speaking on radio station RTL. "Either the government is totally disdaining, or it's incompetent, or it's stubborn. Without doubt it's something of all three...
...time when electoral turnout and party membership have fallen to all-time lows in Britain, the Jury Team is a bid to engage a disillusioned electorate. Currently, less than 1% of Britons are active members of political parties, meaning that between them the parties claim fewer members than the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. As Judge wrote in a recent editorial for The Guardian newspaper: "Our politicians have been pathetic at increasing democratic engagement, even with the power of the media at their fingertips." According to Jury Team advocates, that could be deliberate. "There's never been...