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...turn, earned Griffin his Question Time invitation. "Question Time is the public's chance to challenge the politicians. That is why it is so important that they should sometimes be able to hear and interrogate politicians from the relative fringes as well as from the mainstream," wrote Mark Thompson, the BBC's Director General, in an eve-of-transmission exegesis of BBC policy published in the Guardian newspaper. Britain's Home Secretary Alan Johnson disagreed strongly. The invitation "gives [the BNP] a legitimacy they do not deserve," Johnson, appearing on Question Time a week ahead of Griffin, told the show...
...degree of the shift was surprising," says Wes Thompson, president of Sun Life Financial in the U.S. The economic environment was already troubling when the survey was done a year ago, and "we didn't expect the jump to be as significant - up to 65%" during the latest poll, he says. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...Clearly the notion of retiring at age 67 or 65 is behind us. People are looking at that through the rearview mirror," says Thompson. Workers have been rattled by the lost equity in their homes, retirement-plan losses and long-term concerns about Social Security. "Those are three key drivers that are affecting people psychologically," he says...
...stock market has rallied since March, that doesn't appear to have restored confidence among workers. "It was such a dramatic drop-off in March that even the recovery in the market since then has not fully made up for the losses people have taken in their retirement plans," Thompson says. Also, home values and unemployment have continued to worsen, he notes...
...Francis built its lead throughout the third and fourth quarters, acquiring little-needed insurance. But Harvard didn’t relent on offense, with junior Alex Thompson scoring two pretty goals in the last four minutes to complete his hat trick...