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...everyone gets the joke. California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, waiting to address the Tory party conference by video link in September, watched in bewilderment as Johnson warmed up the crowd with a speech littered with characteristic digressions. "He's fumbling all over the place," hissed the Governator, unaware that his microphone was switched on. Wags in Westminster have since dubbed Johnson "the Fumbulator." He responds, with mock humility: "A man not famed for his eloquence found fault with my delivery and general mastery of public speaking. And these are things I obviously have to overcome...
...prize money kept rolling in. "I was working on a sentence at the war's end, about how the former Nazi camps were being filled with prisoners by the Soviets," he recalls. "It struck me that it was happening all over again, in America - the limits on freedom of speech, the first evidence of torture." As a U.S. resident, Verhaeghen would have to pay American income tax on his prize money, then about $25,000. "I could imagine it would go for schools and hospitals, but in reality much of it would fund the war in Iraq." So he asked...
...magazine geared toward Harvard alums—said in a phone interview that the reporter who wrote the story about Zuckerberg simply walked into federal court and asked for the documents. “We obtained them legally—it’s a matter of free speech,” Kim said. “This isn’t a new tactic—a big company trying to suppress information by harnessing their resources and lawyers to overwhelm media outlets.” According to Kim, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock recognized 02138?...
...Chan, who beat another well-known former government official, Regina Ip, framed her victory as a mandate for democratic reform. "The results of this election indicate that Hong Kong people are anxious to push forward on democracy," Chan said in her acceptance speech...
...faculty and administrators, which is so central to the UC’s mission, was breached. As UC executives, their involvement in the enormous miscalculation in judgment concerning the party fund is alarming. Relations between the UC and College administrators were only worsened by Petersen’s fiery speech at University President Drew G. Faust’s installation, which alienated many in the University leadership, a problem that will have repercussions into the next UC President’s term. As Willey and Snow have pointed out, Sundquist and Sarafa also come from a UC that...