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Study Finds Women Are Better at Parking
KickingTiresThe verdict is in, at least in the United Kingdom: Women are better car parkers than men. A parking lot company in the U.K. called National Car Parks conducted a monthlong study in which it evaluated how men and women......Tags: Gardens and Parks, Companies and Corporations, Tourism and Leisure
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Don King turns 80: Boxing promoter downplays celebration; too busy working
Business & Pleasure of Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsHere???s a hair-raising revelation: Don King turned 80 on Saturday. The UK???s Daily Mail commemorated it with an expansive feature on King???s career. The British tabloid reported that King, based in Deerfield Beach, is keeping the celebration low key...Tags: Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Louis, Deerfield Beach, Larry Holmes, George Foreman
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'Global grand bargain' for Obama: Brown
The Swampby Mark Silva The first European leader to visit the White House of President Barack Obama this week will arrive offering a "global grand bargain.'' British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a former finance minister, said today that he will be......Tags: Business Institutions, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, European Union
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Obama: Stock 'gyrations' wrong indicator
The Swampby Mark Silva As the stock market floated at low points unseen in over a decade, President Barack Obama suggested today that stocks are starting to look like "potentially a good deal... if you have a long-term perspective on it.''......Tags: Stock Activities, Economic Policy, Government, Polls, Gordon Brown
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Brown vows U.K.-U.S. ties will last
The SwampBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses joint session of Congress. (Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News) by Frank James With the U.S. and Britain both buffeted by the global financial and economic meltdown and facing foreign policy...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Government, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, United States
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Ted Kennedy's (honorary) knighthood
The Swampby Mark Silva He will not be "Sir Ted,'' but he will receive an honorary knighthood: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today is announcing the honor for the ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass), known in Britain for his advocacy of......Tags: Popular Music (genre), Diseases and Illnesses, Imperial and Royal Matters, Microsoft Corporation, Elizabeth II
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Obama's not-so-special gift to top Brit
The SwampBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) by Frank James The British media (all right, two newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph) are upset on behalf of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,........Tags: Movies, Best Buy Co., Inc., Government, Gordon Brown, William Howard Taft
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Obama's Euro-odyssey: 'Relationships'
The Swampby Mark Silva In a weeklong journey across Europe, his first since election, President Barack Obama will not only seek a global commitment to economic stimulus -- rumored at $2 trillion in the European press -- but also work on......Tags: Globalization, Angela Merkel, NATO, European Elections, Barack Obama
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G-20: $1 trillion and 'a new world order'
The SwampBy Christi Parsons and Mark Silva LONDON - The world's economic powers are offering $1 trillion in aid for struggling economies, with official communiqu??s and promises of "a new world order'' starting to roll out of the G-20 summit today:......Tags: Government, Globalization, Gordon Brown, United States, Economy
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Obama's Eurography: France = Texas
The Swampby Mark Silva The British press are having no end of fun with the portrayal of their homeland - "slightly smaller than Oregon'' - by the White House of the arriving American president who celebrated the British prime minister's visit......Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Family, United States, National Government, White House
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Obama's 'special' British connection
The Swampby Christi Parsons LONDON -- Which is better, a "special partnership" or a "special relationship"? For observers watching the courtship of President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown here this week, it matters. In the past, evidently,...Tags: Government, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Harry Potter (fictional character), Michelle Obama
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Will Obama amuse QE2 with gift?
The Swampby Frank James Because President Barack Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown such a lame gift when the British head of government visited the White House a few weeks back -- a boxed DVD set of classic American movies......Tags: Government, Imperial and Royal Matters, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
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