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...revealed the manpower limitations of the country's electronic surveillance system. David Capitanbchik, a terrorism expert at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, also suggests the attack in Glasgow may be in response to last week's elevation to the post of Prime Minister of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Yesterday's attack, on the first...
What are the qualities demanded of a leader? Wisdom? Integrity? Experience? Perhaps. But what really counts may be pubbability - an elusive X factor that makes voters want to share a pint with a politician. And on that front, Gordon Brown - the 56-year-old Scot who is expected to replace Tony Blair as Britain's Prime Minister this summer - has a problem...
...That ambivalence will be reflected on May 1, the tricentenary of the Act of Union, which united the Parliaments of Scotland and England. The anniversary will pass barely marked in either country. And tensions between the two may even increase if Gordon Brown, a Scot, becomes the U.K.'s Prime Minister as expected in June. It will highlight an anomaly that's existed since 1999, when Scotland created its own Parliament to address local issues: Scottish M.P.s still vote on English matters in Westminster, but English M.P.s have no say in Edinburgh. "I'd be upset by that too," says...
...SCOT POLLARD, Cleveland Cavaliers center, apologizing for looking into the camera during a recent game and saying, "Hey, kids, do drugs...
...predetermined by a syllabus,” Stebbins wrote in an e-mail. “It was a breath of fresh air, to be able to enjoy the company afforded here without the standard stress.” But students without January exams do not necessarily get off scot-free. Lengthy term papers are often the price of having no finals, as Geoff S. Johnston ’07 learned. Johnston said that despite having no final exams, his five papers—all due during a three-day period and totalling between 75 and 90 pages together?...