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In the News (Mon 30 Nov 09)

  
  Robin Cook
Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre, and twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created.
Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the form gives him "an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine they didn't seem to know about.
Robin Cook is a graduate of Columbia University Medical School and finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard.
us.penguingroup.com /static/packages/us/robincook/bio.htm   (291 words)

  
  Robin Cook
Robin Finlayson Cook (born February 28, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician, who was Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001.
Unfortunately for Cook, his own personal morals were soon in the headlines: when his affair with his secretary was revealed by a newspaper, he told his wife Margaret Cook[?] he was leaving her at Heathrow airport on the way to a holiday.
Cook's resignation statement in the House of Commons, received with an unprecedented standing ovation by fellow MPs, was described by the BBC's Andrew Marr[?] as "without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant, resignation speeches in modern British politics" and "by far a better speech than he has made at any time in government".
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Robin_Cook.html   (590 words)

  
 Robin Cook, Former British Foreign Secretary, Dies at 59 - New York Times
Cook was close to tears in March 2003 when, as leader of the House of Commons, he rose on the very eve of battle to tell legislators that he did not believe an Iraq campaign had either international or domestic support and therefore, "with a heavy heart," he was quitting the government.
Cook brought himself into line with a broad swath of the British population that was opposed to a war without a United Nations mandate and in alliance with a disliked American administration.
Cook informed his wife, Margaret Cook, a medical consultant, of his decision to end their marriage as they were about to board a vacation flight to the United States at London's Heathrow airport.
www.nytimes.com /2005/08/07/obituaries/07cook.html?ex=1281067200&en=6008e162f736d7df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all   (1081 words)

  
 Robin Cook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robin Cook was born in Bellshill, Scotland, the only son of Peter and Christina Cook.
Cook unsuccessfully contested the Edinburgh North constituency in the 1970 general election, but was elected to the House of Commons at the February 1974 general election as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central.
Robin Cook's chicken tikka masala speech, Robin Cook, The Guardian, 19 April 2001.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robin_Cook   (2324 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Robin Cook
Robin Cook, who has died suddenly at the age of 59, was one of the cleverest and most creative figures in modern British politics.
Cook was one of the very few contemporary politicians whose national reputation was built principally within the chamber of the House of Commons.
It is a measure of Cook's competence and prestige, both as a national politician and in his constituency, that he continued to operate effectively and maintain political and public support, in the face of intense and continuing media interest.
politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/comment/0,9236,1544700,00.html   (1751 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Point of Departure: Livres en anglais: Robin Cook   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This Robin Cook is a British politician who resigned his cabinet post in March 2003 in protest over Britain's involvement in the impending war on Iraq.
Cook, who served as Tony Blair's foreign secretary and (later) leader of the House of Commons, was one of Blair's close friends and confidants.
Following the chronological diary entries, Cook appends an essay in which he comments on the war in Iraq and expresses his view that the United Kingdom was roped into participating in the conflict by Blair's single-minded support of President Bush.
www.amazon.fr /Point-Departure-Robin-Cook/dp/0743483774   (611 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Robin Cook - Robin Cook dies at age 59   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cook was then airlifted by helicopter from the summit of the mountain to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, but was already dead by the time he arrived.
Cook's death was finally confirmed by police at 6.50pm after his former wife, Margaret and their two sons had been informed.
ROBIN Cook was, by any standards, one of the outstanding politicians of his generation.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1318&id=1741402005   (1430 words)

  
 Robin Cook   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robin Cook last night launched a searing attack on the US and British governments for their prosecution of what he called a "bloody and unjust war".
Mr Cook's call for an immediate withdrawal from the war zone is a warning to Tony Blair of the immense political problems ahead if — as is now feared — the conflict drags on and the coalition forces are obliged to lay siege to Baghdad.
A spokesman said: "Robin Cook has a well-known position on Iraq and it is not one that the Government shares.
www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /ap03001.html   (845 words)

  
 WIRED TEMPLES - Malta on the Web: The premature death of Robin Cook
Robin Cook died unexpectedly this weekend at the age of 59.
Cook was ending his mandate as President and during a ten minute conversation at the closing reception, he told me that a visit to Malta was on his mind for the short or medium term.
Tributes to Robin Cook spread around the world yesterday as the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, and the American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, added their voices to those in Britain in praising the man who resigned high office over the Iraq war.
www.maltamedia.net /wt/2005/08/premature-death-of-robin-cook.shtml   (704 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Robin Cook
A CAIRN in memory of the late Robin Cook MP is set to be unveiled at a lane named after him in his former constituency.
A LANE where former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook used to go horse-riding in the heart of his constituency is to be named after him.
ROBIN Cook, the late former foreign secretary, was yesterday hailed as "the greatest...
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1318   (427 words)

  
 THE DARK HEART OF ROBIN COOK’S ‘ETHICAL’ FOREIGN POLICY - PART 1
Cook’s death provoked the kind of reminiscences reserved for +favoured+ heads of state and allies of the West, not for the heads of “rogue states”, or for leaders of the vast mass of “unpeople” in the Third World.
In 1978, a young Robin Cook had lambasted the British arms trade, noting that “it is a truism that every war for the past two decades has been fought by poor countries with weapons supplied by rich countries”.
Cook appears to have had sincere reservations about the results of his actions, but was willing to continue when his protests were swept aside.
www.medialens.org /alerts/05/050822_the_dark_heart_of_robin_cook.php   (2539 words)

  
 The Globalist | Biography of Robin Cook
Mr Cook was born on February 28, 1946 and studied English Literature at Edinburgh University.
Cook — once a spokesman of the left-wing of his party — dropped previous commitments to unilateral disarmament and a Eurosceptic approach.
After the 2002 election, Robin Cook was replaced as foreign minister — and became Leader of the House.
www.theglobalist.com /AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=295   (160 words)

  
 Cook_Robin_ma
Robin Cook was born on May 4, 1940, in New York City, son of Edgar Lee and Audrey Cook.
Cook was a resident in ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, in Boston from 1971 to 1975.
Robin Cook writes stories dealing with current medical issues to inform the public.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/cook_robin_ma.htm   (392 words)

  
 THE DARK HEART OF ROBIN COOK’S ‘ETHICAL’ FOREIGN POLICY - PART 2
Cook's lasting achievement was his "ethical foreign policy", former culture secretary Chris Smith declared in the Independent.
“Robin Cook was often misquoted as adopting 'an ethical foreign policy': he was much more careful in his use of words, recognising that any country's foreign policy tends to be ruled by considerations of the national interest.
Cook subsequently reported private conversations with Blair that suggested his boss had long been aware that this was the case.
medialens.org /alerts/05/050824_the_dark_heart_of_robin_cook_part2.php   (1628 words)

  
 Robin Cook
Robin Cook wrote his first book “The Year of the Intern” in 1972, and is currently still writing to this day.
Robin Cook is credited for introducing the word “medical” to his thrilling themes.
Cook is under contract and where Cook was working on a still-unreleased series.
www.wam.umd.edu /~vmacker/robincook.htm   (1244 words)

  
 DEREK RAYMOND, AKA ROBIN COOK, AUTHOR
Robin Cook, the Old Etonian ex-minicab driver and chronicler of the underbelly of society in the 1960s (with titles such as A Crust on Its Uppers), has for many years been publishing, under the nom de plume Derek Raymond, a series of gruesome thrillers known as the ''Factory'' novels.
Cook was particularly pleased at their interest in his work and the fact that there seemed "to be no age gap at all" - which means he has been attracting disaffected bohemian readers for over 30 years now.
Robin Cook was born in London in 1931, the eldest son of a textile magnate.
jarett.kobek.com   (11016 words)

  
 Robin Cook
Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2003, will later say that “al-Qaeda” was originally the name of a database.
Cook later says in his diary that Scarlett’s summary was “shorn of the political slant with which No. 10 encumbers any intelligence assessment.” After the meeting with Scarlett, Cook concludes that “Saddam probably does not have weapons of mass destruction in the sense of weapons that could be used against large-scale civilian targets.”
Cook says to Blair: “It’s clear from the private briefing I have had that Saddam has no weapons of mass destruction in a sense of weapons that could strike at strategic cities.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=robin_cook   (1249 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Contagion: Books: Robin Cook   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This was the first Robin Cook I have read and it may well be the last.
Robin Cooks' understand of human fears is exceptional.
I have read all Robin Cook's novels and this ranks third in my library (Invasion and Chromosome 6 are one and two).
www.amazon.co.uk /Contagion-Robin-Cook/dp/0330347551   (512 words)

  
 Oliver Kamm: Robin Cook
But most significant for Cook's political reputation will be, in my view, his assertion of foreign policy with an ethical dimension (not, as he is often misquoted as saying, an ‘ethical foreign policy’).
Cook, as Foreign Secretary, did fine work in two cases of foreign policy with an ethical dimension: Nato’s repulsion of Serb aggression against the Albanian Kosovars, and the deployment of British troops to Sierra Leone to preserve a suffering people from a peculiarly barbarous set of hand-lopping rebels.
Robin Cook was anti-war, but he was not part of that sort of anti-war ‘Left’.
oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2005/08/robin_cook.html   (492 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook, known commonly as Robin Cook, (born February 28, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician, who was Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001.
He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on March 17, 2003 as a protest over the invasion of Iraq.
Cook's resignation statement in the House of Commons, received with an unprecedented standing ovation by fellow MPs, was described by the BBC's Andrew Marr as "without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant, resignation speeches in modern British politics".
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Robin_Cook   (658 words)

  
 After Robin Cook’s resignation - The Labour Cabinet at War
Cook's speech exposed the hypocrisy of the US and British governments in relation to their failure to implement UN resolutions over years demanding the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories of Palestine.
In a stinging indictment of Bush and Blair's claims and their hypocrisy, he went on to state that Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction, and if it does they are the remnants of those sold to Saddam by British and US governments.
Backing the unanswerable public opinion of two million on the streets of London, Cook, despite protesting that he supports Blair, other than on this the most important question of the day, is in reality outlining his own desire to lead the party in a different direction.
www.marxist.com /Europe/cook_resign.html   (1756 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Shock: Robin Cook: Books
Robin Cook, master of bestselling medical thrillers, answers the "What's the worst thing that could happen?" question in this plot-twisting novel in which villains with no sense of ethics or social responsibility get their greedy hands on the newest cloning technology.
Alas, Cook appears to have gotten off at the wrong station or missed the train entirely, judging by his latest effort, a crudely conceived, ineptly written and most damning of all totally unexciting story ripped from old headlines.
Cook needs a new editor who will prod him to write well again or suggest he take a sabbatical or try a new career.
www.amazon.ca /Shock-Robin-Cook/dp/0399146008   (1514 words)

  
 Shaphan: Lingering questions about Robin Cook's death
This extended entry builds upon 'Robin Cook, the Database and Secrets', which itself derived from 'Warning to Labour Politicians' (and the thread began with 'John Prescott and National Security').
Robin Cook chose an extremely remote place to die, far away from London, and the story was over before the press could send anyone to cover it.
If Cook was opposed to foreign policy, he was opposed to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which is one of the key players with the Bilderbergers in implementing a global government.
shaphan.typepad.com /blog/2006/05/questions_about.html   (3180 words)

  
 Goodreads | Robin Cook
Cook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine.
Cook's medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical problems.
Cook has been remarked to have an uncanny ability to anticipate national controversy.
www.goodreads.com /author/show/19697.Robin_Cook   (795 words)

  
 Robin Cook dies aged 59 | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Mr Cook arrived at hospital at 4pm - some 90 minutes after his collapse and was declared dead five minutes later, said a spokesman for NHS Highland.
Mr Cook was a keen hill-walker, who regularly spent his summer holidays with close family and friends enjoying the dramatic mountain scenery of Highland Scotland, rather than going abroad.
Mr Cook's devotion to enhancing the role of parliament as leader of the Commons made him a popular figure among backbench MPs, and his powerful resignation speech on the eve of war won him great respect from opponents of military action.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk/2005/aug/06/politics.labour   (464 words)

  
 BookPage Interview September 2001: Robin Cook
Robin Cook's latest medical thriller may seem like yet another example of the author's uncanny ability to anticipate national controversy, in this case the uproar over federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
But in fact, Shock, Cook's expose of the private infertility industry, was actually delayed nearly a year by an arrival of a different sort -- Cameron Cook, the author's first child.
It is largely within these privately funded clinics that controversial stem cell research is being conducted because the federal government, beset by anti-abortion groups, has refused to grant it funding.
www.bookpage.com /0109bp/robin_cook.html   (1025 words)

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