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Sometimes it's hard to muster enough critical detachment to report a subject fairly. Take the changes to London's congestion charging scheme that were unveiled at a ceremony in City Hall this morning. Ken Livingstone, the capital's two-term Labour Mayor - currently campaigning to win a third stint in May 1 elections - announced that from October onward, drivers of high-polluting vehicles will have to pay a punitive ?25 or $50-a-day toll for city-center journeys. The chief focus of Livingstone's wrath are the four-wheel drive vehicles he calls "Chelsea tractors": shiny gas-guzzlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing the Gas Guzzlers in London | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

After a brief stint schmoozing in the roped-off VIP area, Hilton ascended the DJ booth to praise Boston’s partying abilities...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...STOPS HERE. All but a few of the regulars refused to work. Even Letterman - though he felt indebted to Shore, who had taken him under her wing when he arrived from Indiana with his wife in 1975, making him an MC - joined the picket line after he finished a stint as guest host on the Tonight Show. "This was the umbilical cord for a lot of guys, myself included," says Letterman. "Money wasn't necessarily an issue for me, because I had a couple of bucks in the bank. But for these other guys, this was it. This was sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Comedy Strike | 2/4/2008 | See Source »

...STOPS HERE. All but a few of the regulars refused to work. Even Letterman?though he felt indebted to Shore, who had taken him under her wing when he arrived from Indiana with his wife in 1975, making him an MC?joined the picket line after he finished a stint as guest host on the Tonight Show. "This was the umbilical cord for a lot of guys, myself included," says Letterman. "Money wasn't necessarily an issue for me, because I had a couple of bucks in the bank. But for these other guys, this was it. This was sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Comedy Strike | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

Last May, on the tail-end of his stint as FAS dean, he told The Crimson that he would stay on as long as President Faust asked him to, though the job was taxing...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New College Dean Pick To Come Soon | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

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