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...primary role is to maintain discipline in parliamentary debates, but he also chairs the House of Commons Commission, responsible for advocating changes in the rules governing MPs. Those rules include the bloated system of allowances that has seen politicians charge for such essentials as a black glitter toilet seat and a chocolate Santa as well as make larger claims for mortgage moneys and the upkeep of ancestral piles. (See Britain's top 10 outrageous expense claims...
...Conn., at night after a total of an hour and a half of flight training. Buckley also smoked, drank, ate peanut-butter-and-bacon sandwiches and took pills by the fistful. He was a reckless sailor who crossed three oceans--his terrified crews nicknamed him Captain Crunch. He abominated seat belts, and in his later life he developed the unnerving habit of urinating out the open doors of cars going at full speed. Buckley, an icon of the modern conservative movement, died last year at 82 from a heart attack. It's amazing that he lasted as long...
...knew it’d be competitive, but again we hoped to do better than fourth.”The second varsity eight made the day a little sweeter with a second place finish in its event. Although it trailed Wisconsin from the beginning, Radcliffe pulled out a seven-seat lead coming into the half-way mark. Never looking back, the rowers crossed the line in 7:19, ending the season with silver medals around their necks. As the rest of the team focuses on exams and the beginning of summer, the varsity lightweight eight will have an opportunity...
...Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's May 12 announcement that he will run for Senate instead of reelection in 2010 was rare good news for the flailing GOP. The first-term governor, who is seeking the seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, has consistently boasted approval ratings in the high 60s since taking office despite economic dark days in the Sunshine State. An adroit campaigner who addresses every citizen he meets as "my boss," Crist is widely expected to crush the general election field - if he can make it through the primary. Dubbed a RINO - Republican in Name Only...
...Fatos Buyukkusoglu, who led the hotel's design team and lives in a smaller house on the property. "We designed a lot of inner courtyards and spaces where guests can come together - at the dinner table, in the lounge or by the pool." Meals are taken at a 14-seat dining table, on the terrace, or on various sculptural bits of lawn furniture, and each night guests gather by the fireplace in the reading room or on the sofa in the lounge. (See 10 things to do in Dubai...