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...serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities’ president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities” starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male. In an interview yesterday, Richardson likened her appointment to University President Drew G. Faust’s selection last spring. “I certainly want to be known as a highly successful principal of St. Andrews...
...positive as it was with Blair in terms of foreign policy and European issues, but it lacks the personal friendship." Brown's joint press conference with Bush at Camp David last July was a study in embarrassment, as Bush's homespun joviality bounced off the dark-suited, buttoned-up Scot...
...fate of Northern Rock is no less popular right now than guessing that of Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. When Brown picked him as his successor as finance minister last June, Darling's closeness to Brown was his strength. Dependable, gaffe-free (and, like the Prime Minister, a Scot), Darling was a safe bet at the Treasury. Much less so now. Recent controversies over changes to Britain's capital gains tax, and plans to tax non-domiciled foreigners living in the U.K., have heaped criticism on Darling. And the strung-out - and fruitless - search for a buyer for Northern...
...travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." During the long, bitter years when Gordon Brown hungered for the top job in British politics, he'd never have agreed with this sentiment framed by a fellow Scot, 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson. After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective...
...while it gives a racial breakdown, it reveals nothing about ethnicity, self-identification, or dynamics between ethnicities. The question, of course, is whether a painstakingly detailed ethnic breakdown is relevant. After all, Caucasians come from all over Europe, and we usually don’t distinguish Irish from Scot from Belgian. The circumstance that makes Asian American diversity important, however, is that this group is particularly new to the country; Asians only first began arriving in the late nineteenth century, and much of the influx has occurred post...