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...Nobody’s ever got it in the bag,” said Greenfield. He pointed specifically to the “volatility” that has followed from the UC’s party fund feud with Pilbeam and from Petersen’s controversial, fiery speech at University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration as a factor that could lead to voter uncertainty...
...idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating a hydrogen-fueled Hummer—a car that gets a whopping 10-15 miles per gallon—while crisscrossing the country in his private jet. Last year, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (D-Il.) gave a speech in Washington D.C. emphasizing the need to drive more fuel-efficient cars before hopping into his own hybrid car. Several blocks away, he was caught switching from his environmentally friendly ride into a gas-guzzling...
...debut speech by Jonathan Evans, who became head of MI5 in April, would have excited interest simply for its rarity value. For most Britons, his Nov. 5 appearance provided their first glimpse of the 49-year-old career spy from an ordinary background (his grandfather was a bus driver) who had risen through the ranks first to serve as head of MI5's international terrorism section and then on to the agency...
...Evans' choice of audience would have also generated comment. He delivered his speech, which had prior approval from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, to the Society of Editors, a group dedicated to the preservation of media freedoms. The date of the speech added further piquancy: Evans addressed his audience on Guy Fawkes' Day, the anniversary of one of the earliest terror conspiracies in Britain, the failed plot on Nov. 5, 1605, to blow up the Houses of Parliament...
...Against this backdrop, Evans' speech itself could have seemed an anticlimax, the gray bureaucratic musings of a gray bureaucrat. Instead, it packed a hefty punch, revealing a new assessment of the scale of the terror threat facing the U.K. and the conflicting demands placed on his organization as it works to counter that threat. The tensions between terrorism prevention and the protection of civil liberties were already set to dominate the U.K.'s political agenda in a week that will see a report published about the shooting by London's anti-terror police in 2005 of an innocent Brazilian electrician...