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  Gordon Brown News - The New York Times
Brown, 56, the son of a Church of Scotland preacher, entered Edinburgh University at the age of 16, stayed on to complete his doctorate in politics and began his political career in the Scottish Labor Party in 1983.
Brown were considered part of the new order that brought youth and energy to the party, and both were considered natural candidates to head the party.
Gordon Brown has demonstrated that he is capable of telling the occasional joke and of handling crises.
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 Gordon Brown in the eye of the storm - Telegraph
As Gordon Brown surveys the political wreckage of the past few weeks, he must be wondering what else the North East can possibly throw at him - and whether it could kill off his premiership altogether.
But Mr Brown is also in the frame; linked to the scandal by his fundraiser-in-chief Jon Mendelsohn, a member of his inner circle who, by his own admission, knew about Mr Abrahams's unusual habit of writing cheques for the party - worth more than £650,000 over five years - using other people's bank accounts.
Alistair Darling, Brown's famously monochrome choice for Chancellor, was already mired in the "Northern Wreck" affair when he stood in the Commons 11 days ago to make a barely believable statement.
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 Gordon Brown: News & Videos about Gordon Brown - CNN.com
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended a decision not to call a mid-term general election, a move that ended weeks of speculation the new head of the ruling Labour party was set to cash in on an early surge in popularity.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cutting short his holiday retreat to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, said on Saturday the government would act decisively and promptly to contain, eradicate and identify the source of the disease.
Gordon Brown has launched his campaign to be Britain's next prime minister, a day after Tony Blair announced he would stand down in June.
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 Being Ruby...: Gordon Brown Nosing For Power
A prime example of this was Gordan Browns speech yesterday, in which he done a total 180 and asked the public and Tony Blair to forgive him for the arguments he’s had with old Tony Boy.
This is him brown nosing not only to Tony, in hope of getting Tonys vote of confidence, but also to the biggest terrorist of them all George W. why, god only knows.
Brown is willing to comprmise his own beliefs in the hope of becoming P.M and its clear in his speech he’s willing to say anything in order to get the power he has been coveting even since he sat in a small office with Tony Blair.
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  Gordon Brown - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
As punishment for his actions, Gordon Brown was sentenced to be beheaded by Osama Bin Laden, ironically, inside one of the Sharia Law Courts he had fought to establish under the blairite era of Tony Blair (Also known as Tony-B-Liar).
Gordon "texture like sun" Brown, often likened to a mixture of Hitler and a Penis, was born in Glasgow, now a part of Scotland, in the late 20th Century.
Brown Gordon served Blair well, although he was somewhat overzealous: his instructions were to rob from the rich and give to the poor, whereas Brown Gordon found it far more economical to simply rob everybody.
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 Gordon Brown
Not only is Brown not prudent himself, he is particularly fond of means tests that tend to carry the moral that it is foolish to be prudent.
Brown thought that the best way of alleviating hardship amongst pensioners was to freeze the basic pension and to boost those who were without savings.
Brown said he would only borrow to invest, but his idea of investment, such as schools or the NHS, is dodgy and usually not investment at all but consumer spending.
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  Gordon Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom and a British Labour Party politician.
Brown is a public relations executive and was, until 2001, Chief Executive of Hobsbawm Macaulay, the consultancy firm she owned with Julia Hobsbawm.
Brown has adhered to Labour's election pledge to not increase the basic or higher rates of income tax: he in fact reduced the starting rate from 20% to 10% in 1999 and the basic rate from 23% to 22% in 2000.
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 John Brown Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordon was descended from an ancient Scottish lineage, the fourth child of twelve, born on his father's plantation in Upson County, Georgia.
Gordon was an aggressive general who, when he was in command, or when he led a charge, was never defeated or repulsed.
Gordon was a brigadier general and brigade commander in D.H. Hill's division in the Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
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 Commanding Heights : Gordon Brown | on PBS
GORDON BROWN: The central idea that dominates central and left-of-center politics is this very simple but powerful idea that each individual should have the chance to realize their potential to the full.
GORDON BROWN: The problem with the Thatcher prescription is not only did she leave a volatile and unstable economy, which had two of the worst recessions since the war, but she left a society where people felt the public services were undervalued.
GORDON BROWN: I think what was called the "Washington consensus," which was essentially something that emerged in the 1980s and applied in the 1990s, we had to move on from that.
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 Gordon Brown, pioneer electrical engineer, educator at MIT, dies at 88 - MIT News Office
Brown was born in 1907 in Australia and, at the age of 18, graduated from what was then known as Workingman's College, now the Royal Melbourne Technical College, with three diplomas--in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering.
Brown continued as dean of engineering until 1968 when he became the first holder of the Dugald Caleb Jackson Professorship, named for the man who was head of the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering when Dr. Brown arrived as an undergraduate.
Brown was the author of more than 50 technical and professional papers and the co-author, with the late Donald P. Campbell, of Principles of Servomechanisms, published in 1948 and still a standard reference in the field.
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 Blair backs Brown leadership bid - CNN.com
Brown unveiled his manifesto on Friday in a speech to activists of the ruling Labour Party, promising Britain would maintain its obligations to the Iraqi people and that government must be more accountable to parliament in all matters, including war.
Brown said Blair had served Britain with distinction, adding "in the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show that I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
While Brown had a good grounding in running a key ministry, Oakley said he might not have the patience to handle the diplomatic juggling needed to be PM.
www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/brown.bid/index.html   (882 words)

  
 Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown joined the Labour Party in 1969 and was elected MP for Dunfermline East in 1983.
One of Gordon Brown's first acts as Chancellor was to give independence to the Bank of England to set interest rates.
Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah's first child, Jennifer Jane, died aged 10 days after being born prematurely in 2002.
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 Gordon Brown - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Brown fue elegido lider del Partido Laborista el 24 de junio de 2007, y después fue nombrado primer ministro del Reino Unido el 27 de junio con la dimisión de Tony Blair.
Brown dictó clases en diversas universidades escocesas antes de trabajar como periodista en la televisión de Escocia hasta 1983, cuando pasó a dedicarse de lleno a la política, al ingresar como diputado a la Cámara de los Comunes del Parlamento Británico.
Gordon Brown anunció oficialmente en mayo de 2007 su candidatura para suceder a Tony Blair como líder del Partido Laborista y Primer Ministro del Reino Unido.
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 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: Gordon Brown
There is no doubt Mr Brown cultivated his sober, earnest image in the early years of his political career, at a time when Labour was attempting to shake off its reputation for economic incompetence.
During the 1997 election campaign Gordon Brown was said to have worked an average of 18 hours a day, six days a week - after running on a treadmill for an hour each morning.
Overnight, Mr Brown's serious exterior was replaced by big smiles and joy as he told the world his daughter was the "most beautiful in the world".
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 FOXNews.com - Gordon Brown Hopes to Succeed Tony Blair - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | ...
Treasury chief Gordon Brown praised Blair effusively in a closely watched address to the governing Labour Party's annual conference, saying he regretted the bitter infighting that recently roiled the party.
Brown said Labour must never succumb to anti-Americanism but he gave a wink to the party's strong opposition to Blair's decision to join the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, saying Parliament —; not just the prime minister — should have the power to declare war.
Brown, a deeply private man, tried to give Britons a glimpse of who he is and what drives him by recalling how strongly his parents shaped his view of the world.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,215518,00.html   (789 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How to turn Gordon Brown green
As chancellor, Gordon Brown constantly blocked new environmental policy and championed environmentally disastrous approaches to aviation and planning.
But Gordon Brown's challenge is immensely greater: to secure a global agreement that limits global climate change to 2C (3.6F).
"Gordon Brown is not proving himself to be a green minister with this first draft programme.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6277596.stm   (1295 words)

  
 Gordon Brown's cabinet | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Gordon Brown's 'safe pair of hands' faces something of a poisoned chalice as the new chancellor.
New parliamentary secretary to the Treasury and chief whip is one of the unlikely cabinet survivors.
Close confidant of Gordon Brown becomes secretary for the cabinet and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.
politics.guardian.co.uk /gordonbrown/page/0,,2113853,00.html   (690 words)

  
 Labour: Latest news
Gordon Brown has set out his vision for education with a speech at the University of Greenwich.
Gordon Brown noted that the Government was looking at the possibility that its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 w...
Labour’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has delivered a statement to the House of Commons regarding the final text of the EU Treaty in Lisbon.
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 Britain and America: Gordon Brown
The closeness of Team Brown to Democrat politicians was confirmed again last week when it became very evident that much of Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Conference was inspired by Bob Shrum, long-time consultant to Al Gore, John Kerry and other opponents of the Republican Party.
Gordon Brown's remarks were much less personal but he emphasised that he hoped for a strengthening of the UK-US relationship in the years to come.
With Gordon Brown almost certain to succeed Tony Blair the Telegraph in the UK and the Wall Street Journal in the US have looked at what this will mean for the transatlantic alliance, and for the relationship between the President and the Prime Minister.
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 NuLabour: Gordon Brown Archives
Gordon Brown's spin doctors appear to be harking back to his dubious speech on terrorism, terrorist finanace, identity cards etc. given to the Royal United Services Institute back on February 13th 2006.
Gordon Brown is keeping a low profile again, presumably glad that the media are no longer questioning his appalling incompetence over £2 billion of Tax Credits, two years in a row now.
Gordon Brown is at least as much to blame for NuLabour's policies as Tony Blair is, and he appears to be at least as much of a control freak and just as reliant on media spin and disinformation.
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 Your e-mails: Gordon Brown - CNN.com
The lack of competing candidates to Gordon Brown for the UK premiership clearly demonstrates the political and intellectual bankruptcy of the Labour Party.
Gordon Brown is the right man for the job, because I am pretty sure he has learned from his predecessor's mistakes.
I think that Gordon Brown will be a good prime minister for Britain considering the fact that he is not going to partner with President Bush to continue the terror he created, supported by Tony Blair, the outgoing prime minister.
www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/yourviews.brown/index.html   (823 words)

  
 Gordon Brown - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brown has had a long and extremely close association with the controversial Labour MP and multi-millionaire, Geoffrey Robinson.
Brown's support for new nuclear build sits uncomfortably with the fact that, since September 2004, his younger brother Andrew has been head of media relations at nuclear company EDF Energy.
As of April 2007, Brown was still at the company: he sat in on an interview with EDF boss Vincent de Rivaz.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Gordon_Brown   (1541 words)

  
 gordonbrown.net
Gordon Brown was shooting IMAX for MacGillivray Freeman Films Production of "Journey Into Amazing Caves"when Michael Brown shot this picture from a platform, set mid-way down inside a 600' deep ice cave in the Greenland Ice Cap.
Gordon is as comfortable rappelling into 600' deep ice caves in Greenland for IMAX as he is doing Betacam interviews with a studio crew in Los Angeles or running helmet-mounted kayaking POVs on the Nile in Africa with Digital Video.
Gordon joined John Lane and Ralph Cutter for a cave scouting adventure to be continued....
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