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...last Thursday, when House Masters met for the final time this academic year, budgets for the coming year had still not been finalized. Eck expressed doubt that House budgets would be formally approved before the July 1 start date of the next fiscal year...
...President Barack Obama is set to attempt a makeover. He will appear at a different Cairo university on Thursday to deliver a speech to the entire Muslim world. Not unlike Condi Rice, Obama is expected to offer an idealistic vision of the future, proclaiming a common purpose as allies who can celebrate their differences and embrace their similarities. But Obama's team hopes to succeed where Rice failed, in changing the deteriorating dynamic between the U.S. and the Muslim world. (See pictures of Obama in Saudi Arabia...
...term doesn't expire until June 2010. But rumors are swirling that Labour backbenchers are collecting signatures on a petition asking for Brown to step aside. Some opinion polls are suggesting that Labour might even slide into third or fourth place in some parts of the country in Thursday's municipal and European elections. So nobody is taking bets on the Brown government lasting into next year. (See pictures of Brown as he prepared for power...
...capital gains tax on the sale of property she had officially designated as her second home, in order to claim the MPs' second-home allowance on it. The two women could have meekly awaited their fate in the reshuffle long planned to reassert Brown's authority after Thursday's elections. Their decision to jump first suggests that their loyalty to Labour - "I want to help the Labour Party to reconnect with the British people," said Blears in her resignation statement - does not extend to Brown...
...debated next week demanding immediate elections. They won't prevail. Labour dissidents want to oust Brown well before elections are called. Support has been steadily coalescing around Health Secretary Alan Johnson as his replacement, but there are other contenders too. If Labour performs even worse than expected in Thursday's polls or Brown attempts to dislodge a Cabinet minister who's not prepared to go quietly, a fresh insurrection could be triggered. "I'll be amazed if [Brown] survives this," says a Labour insider. "But I've been amazed before...