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...Exchequer Gordon Brown have deliberately invited pressure from rock stars like Geldof and U2's Bono to make it easier for them to persuade voters to spend more on aid, and to make it more embarrassing for relatively recalcitrant countries like the U.S. and Germany to keep their wallets shut. Behind the scenes, the coordination among 10 Downing Street, the British Treasury and the activists - though they don't always see eye to eye - is constant and intense. Geldof came up with the idea for the Africa Commission that Blair enthusiastically implemented, laying out a detailed program for reform. With...
...resisting arrest with the final words, "Useless?useless." Geary then wraps up his brief history with a survey of the remaining questions that still surround the events. For example, why did the government remove 18 pages from Booth's journal, and what became of them? Even such open-and-shut cases as Lincoln's murder seem to always have a bit of mystery about them...
...Number of illegal Internet caf?s shut down by the Chinese government between February and December...
Will County, Ill., last week closed its forest preserves until it can get a new liability policy on them--if that can be done at all--and Blue Lake, Calif. (pop. 1,200), has shut its skating rink, parks and tennis court. Hundreds of other towns in California and in New York State are "going bare." That is, they simply cannot get liability insurance...
Dealings between the superpowers, no matter how innocent, can never be separated from politics, and it would be naive to assume that this agreement will enable Soviet and American artists to pirouette around all political confrontations. Moscow, for instance, shut the door to a Hello, Dolly! troupe after the American bombing of North Viet Nam and kept the Bolshoi Ballet at home after the 1967 Middle East war. Washington retaliated in similar ways after the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. Canceling a ballet tour or an orchestra performance is an easy way for both countries to show displeasure...