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...faces around the Cabinet table won't look much different, despite Brown's vow to create a government drawing on talent outside the ranks of his own party. The outsiders will be consigned to more junior ministerial positions. Several Cabinet ministers are old hands, though sitting in different places; there are still more Scots (including Brown and Darling) and fewer women than their comparative proportions of the population, but in Jacqui Smith the U.K. now has its first female Home Secretary and, at 44, one of several youthful members of Team Gordon. Douglas Alexander, entrusted with International Development, and Ruth...
Producers of Lost vow not to put the American public through the turmoil caused by The Sopranos series finale. At the annual Promax/BDA media conference, creator Carlton Cuse said Lost's end will have a "logical conclusion" and, unlike The Sopranos, "will not be ending with a blackout." SCORE...
...Fortunately, there are many in the community who hold that the mission of higher education requires values other than money—the not-so-corporate vow of “Veritas,” for example, or principles of justice, accountability, sustainability, peace, and freedom. Ours is the generation of 9/11, Iraq, Katrina. Wherever we stand, we have learned that nothing, not even the Harvard bubble, can insulate us from the world—nor should...
...drum-banging, last week’s hunger strike ended with a whimper: The University restated its existing position on wage parity, and agreed to a meaningless meeting with the Stand for Security campaign (SfS). This hardly lives up to the activists’ impossibly self-important initial vow to “physically manifest the severity of the treatment received by security officers,” but they are undeterred; further aggressive action is whole-heartedly supported by SfS. “We’re 100 percent behind whatever the guards decide to do,” according...
...former World Bank employee. Then he waited stoically through the investigation phase, when it only gradually became clear his days were dwindling down. He entered the final week fighting, and even after the White House removed Wolfowitz from life support a few days ago, he doubled down with a vow to soldier on. From a distance, it might have seemed heroic. But much of it was psy-war for the climactic round...