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  Stephen Pound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen "Punch" Pound (born 3 July 1948) is the Labour member of Parliament for Ealing North, in London, and has been MP since 1997.
In January of 2005 it was revealed that Pound, now married and the father of two, had an illegitimate daughter when he was eighteen years old.
In May 2005, Pound appeared on British TV quiz show Have I Got News For You and in December of that year in a special edition of University Challenge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Pound   (182 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Stephen Wing was appointed Constable of Sandwich by the Plymouth Court, January 8, 1655.
Stephen Wing must have served several years as Town Clerk and the records kept in 1669 and 1674 are known to be in his handwriting.
Stephen Wing brought to the town authorities one dozen heads of flbirds and on the 19th of March, 1673, he was credited upon the town books with one dozen more heads.
hometown.aol.com /pionear504/stephengraham.html   (3581 words)

  
 The Yale Free Press
British MP Stephen Pound made a promise to the listeners of the BBC Radio 4, asking listeners to phone in suggestions for a piece of legislation.
Pound promised to propose to Parliament the piece of legislation that received the most votes.
Stephen Pound may have been correct when he alleged that the only people who voted were supporters of Tony Martin: it appears most of the country is outraged and on his side.
www.yale.edu /yfp/archives/feb04/feb04_guns.html   (530 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> pound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
A pound (greeting) is a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
Pound as a verb means to grind with or as with a mortar and pestle, to strike or hit something (pound the keys of a typewriter, pound the table)
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/pound   (152 words)

  
 Pound Bio: The Online Library of Liberty
Considered by many to be the dean of American jurisprudence, Pound was a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska and served as dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936.
Pound’s view of the welfare state as a means of expanding government power over the individual speaks to the front-page issues of the new millennium as clearly as it did to America in the mid-twentieth century.
Pound argues that the theme of justice grounded in enduring ideals is critical for America.
oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/AuthorPage.php?recordID=0208   (378 words)

  
 The Sun Online - Letters - Dear Sun: This MP is one Pound we don't want to save
LABOUR MP Stephen Pound is a buffoon for deriding people who opted for a new law to permit homeowners to defend their property against intruders by any means at their disposal.
Pound and his ilk in Labour have stretched our patience for too long with their barely hidden contempt for our opinions on the issues we care strongly about.
IT is outrageous that Stephen Pound called us “bastards” on the sly when all we did was ask him to support a law that enables us to protect our homes and families.
www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2001340002-2004010138,00.html   (1287 words)

  
 British Parliamentary Meeting Calls for Assyrian Administrative Region in North Iraq
Stephen Pound MP and other speakers at the meeting, jointly organised by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (UK branch) and Jubilee Campaign, stressed that the British Government should support the creation of an Administrative Region in the ChaldoAssyrian heartland in the Nineveh Plains.
The meeting's speakers were Stephen Pound MP, John Michael, an Assyrian who is British representative of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Professor Eden Naby, an Assyrian and specialist on the Middle East, Shamiran Mako, from the Council for Assyrian Research and Development and Human Rights Without Frontiers, and Wilfred Wong, Parliamentary Officer for Jubilee Campaign.
Stephen Pound MP says, "This meeting is only the start of a process to bring the world's attention to the terrible suffering of the Christian communities in Iraq.
www.aina.org /news/20041022135007.htm   (838 words)

  
 Stephen 'Amnesia' Pound MP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Stephen 'Amnesia' Pound MP A page dedicated to Ealing North's Labour MP Stephen Pound, who at the start of 2004
October 2005: Another Conservative attempt to bring in a law to allow householders to defend themselves against criminals, and the Great Pound is in the front line.
January 2005: The Great Pound has an excellent chance to speak up after the government sides with burglars in keeping the current crass law on intruders.
www.btinternet.com /~brentours/GOV22.htm   (272 words)

  
 MP's joy over love child | News | This is London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Stephen Pound, 56, who is married with two children, only learned he had another daughter when a letter arrived at his parliamentary office.
Mr Pound's relationship with Lucy's mother ended before he discovered she was pregnant and she never told him.
It took Mr Pound, MP for Ealing North, a week to come to terms with the discovery and tell his wife, Maggie.
www.thisislondon.co.uk /news/londonnews/articles/16102360?source=Eve   (799 words)

  
 The Legal Philosophers: The Jurists.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Stephen's view that force was ultimately needed.) Through Maine' historical analysis it can be seen that optimum fairness or justice is achieved by people in civilized society through contract, not status: words for which Maine became known for --
Stephen, in his writings, attacked classic liberalism as is represented in the writings of John Stuart Mill.
Indeed, Stephen was of the view that the "theories advanced...
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Law/Jurists.htm   (2897 words)

  
 Teenreads.com -- Author Profile: Stephen King
Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.
When Stephen King was two, his father walked out on him, his older brother, David, and their mother Nellie Pillsbury King.
Horror novels began to be described as "Stephen King-type books." King, with characteristic graciousness and modesty, credits William Peter Blatty's novel THE EXORCIST with opening the door for his type of novel to be accepted in the mainstream.
www.teenreads.com /authors/au-king-stephen.asp   (2590 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Iraq Report
Stephen Pound MP agreed to put forward whichever idea eventually won the final vote.
Mr Pound's reaction to your result highlights exactly what is wrong with the UK system of government and law making.
It is only when Mr Pound and his ilk recognise that this is the problem that he will understand why politicians are distrusted and voter turn out continues to fall.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/misc/law_result_20040101.shtml   (1286 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Stephen Pound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining.
Stephen Pelham Pound (born 3 July 1948) is the Labour member of Parliament for Ealing North, in London, and has been MP since 1997.
I simply think that now that our Theodore has attained an immature adulthood plus ninety pounds gross, he's mentally capable of understanding my use of descriptors to guide his and my selection of foods, and environments suitable for our well being.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stephen-Pound   (609 words)

  
 Stephen Bosworth Pound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen B. Pound (1833 - 1911) was a pioneer lawyer, senator, and judge in Nebraska, USA.
Born and educated in New York state, Pound moved to Nebraska in 1869.
Pound was the father of three children: Roscoe, Louise, and Olivia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Bosworth_Pound   (108 words)

  
 I fetched suicide tablets for Stephen Ward, says MP
AN MP has revealed that it was he, as a boy, who fetched the sleeping pills that Stephen Ward, the osteopath at the centre of the Profumo scandal, used to commit suicide.
As a 15-year-old, Stephen Pound, now Labour MP for Ealing North, helped his father, Pelham Pound, a former News of the World journalist, by running errands during Ward's trial at the Old Bailey in 1963, he said yesterday.
Mr Pound, who became an MP at the last election, ascribed his interest in politics partly to his experience in the Ward case.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/06/29/nprof29.html   (509 words)

  
 Chestnut Pound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
One of Webster's definitions of pound is "an enclosure for sheltering, keeping, confining or trapping animals".
A reference to Chestnut Pound is found in the records of the Town of Brookhaven which is basically as follows:
Apparently one brother Leon received his home lot in Swezeytown and the Chestnut Pound property was divided between his brother George, his sister Alice Albin and his cousin Hewlett Mott.
www.longwood.k12.ny.us /history/midisl/chestnut.htm   (446 words)

  
 Prof. Robert Pound
Robert Pound maintains an active career as composer and conductor in the capacity of Associate Professor of Music at Dickinson College.
Pound holds Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, where he was a composition student of Stephen Albert and Milton Babbitt.
In March 2002, Pound was Composer in Residence at Columbus State University, and from 1994 to 1998 he held the positions of Music Theory Coordinator, Composition Instructor, and Resident Conductor at Rocky Ridge Music Center.
alpha.dickinson.edu /departments/music/whoweare/pound.htm   (279 words)

  
 Disney World - The Online Guide - Trip report
The next question is read and Stephen knows the answer and is tapping the keypad before the choices are revealed.
Stephen is trying to find Disney character Pez dispensers for some friends.
Stephen and I did this once and, until you see it and try to eat it, you have no concept of how much hot dog there is in ½ pound.
www.wdisneyw.co.uk /repsr037.html   (1330 words)

  
 MP Calls Radio 4 Listeners 'Bastards' Over Vigilante Vote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
But yesterday, 26,000 votes later, the winning proposal was denounced as a "ludicrous, brutal, unworkable blood-stained piece of legislation" - by Stephen Pound, the very MP whose job it is to try to push it through Parliament.
Mr Pound's reaction was provoked by the news that the winner of Today's "Listeners' Law" poll was a plan to allow homeowners "to use any means to defend their home from intruders" - a prospect that could see householders free to kill burglars, without question.
Having recovered his composure, Mr Pound told The Independent: "We are going to have to re-evaluate the listenership of Radio 4.
www.freedomradio.us /news/2004/january/listenerslaw.htm   (389 words)

  
 Ananova - Labour MP tells constituent to 'shove' her vote
Stephen Pound, defending a 9,160 majority in Ealing North, told lifelong Labour supporter Lila Tait, 47, she was a "middle class whinger" and told her to "shove" her vote after she complained about university tuition fees.
Civil servant Mrs Tait had left Mr Pound a message on his "election hotline" on Friday saying although she had supported Labour all her life she was worried about the party's introduction of tuition fees.
Mr Pound said: "This was a case of mistaken identity.
www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_313178.html   (308 words)

  
 Pound genealogy and family history
Included is a general family name cluster of information from external databases.
We are developing a system for the public to suggest specific resources for Pound and other names, to complement the more general data for Pound family search.
Either we experienced a bad connection to the database, or there may be no matching data found.
www.peoplearchive.org /peep.php?ln=pound   (103 words)

  
 Steve Pound Proxy Weblog
Steve Pound "went on a whistle-stop tour of as many of the borough’s Tube stations on Tuesday evening to rally support", according to the Ealing Times.
There have been many articles concerning Stephen Pound's long-lost daughter, but this BBC article sums it all up neatly enough.
The tone of the article seems to imply that Steve Pound, as well as several other public figures, are associates of Opus Dei.
steve-pound.blogspot.com   (1131 words)

  
 BBC listeners want right to kill burglars
A law to limit to two the number of terms a Prime Minister could serve and to make it compulsory to vote in general elections won nine per cent, while a law to ban smoking in all work places won 20 per cent.
Ms Holt admitted yesterday that the winning proposal was unlikely to become law, as did Stephen Pound, the Labour MP for Ealing North who has volunteered to persuade a colleague to promote the idea as a Private Member's Bill.
Mr Pound preferred the runner-up and said he had already spoken about it to John Reid, the Health Secretary.
www.prisonplanet.com /010104killburglars.html   (712 words)

  
 2nd Amendment News Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Judging from the reaction of Stephen Pound, MP, the modish proponents of "direct democracy" believe in letting the people's voice be heard only so long as it agrees with what their betters have already decided.
Why, the People's Champion himself, Stephen Pound, dismissed it as a "ludicrous, brutal, unworkable blood-stained piece of legislation.
It's not quite so funny when applied, by Mr Pound, to people impertinent enough to bring up a topic that you and the rest of the governing class have decided is beyond debate.
www.2ndamendment.com /Content/News/20040106-08.htm   (972 words)

  
 news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
However, in the small town of Lewes, a twice life-size papier mache model of the pope is paraded through the streets before being thrown onto the fire to the chanting of anti-papal and anti-Catholic slogans.
Pound said he was amazed that such profoundly offensive actions" were still continuing in the 21st century.
Pound praised those people of Lewes who are standing up against the annual event.
www.catholicexchange.com /e3news/index.asp?article_id=157958   (364 words)

  
 Health
But it was Barrett and a drum, said Stephen's mom, Betty Anderson, that made a therapeutic difference.
Stephen and Barrett pounded on the drum, talked into it and scratched the drum skin to get as many sounds as they could from the drum.
Barrett placed Stephen's tiny hand on the place on the drum he wanted him to pound, and Stephen obliged, a sign of social interaction that was new.
www.thestressoflife.com /music.htm   (2014 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
New Delhi, April 2: Calcutta has been praised as a “super city” by the leader of a heavyweight British parliamentary delegation which is about to arrive in the Bengal capital for a series of political and business meetings.
Pound’s comment goes beyond mere politeness and suggests that the British have been quick to recognise that Bengal is climbing out of its trough.
And if the British are convinced that Bengal’s bad old days are over, they would be in a good position to pass on the good news to Britain’s partners in Europe.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060403/asp/nation/story_6048713.asp   (378 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - Top Stories - EXCLUSIVE: TORY MP WALLOPS LABOUR MP
LABOUR MP Stephen Pound yesterday branded Tory backbencher Philip Davies "a little squirt" after the two men brawled at a radio station over a scrap of paper.
Later Mr Pound, parliamentary aide to Home Office minister Hazel Blears, was treated at London's St Thomas' Hospital where doctors said he had either a cracked rib or a damaged chest muscle.
Mr Davies accused Mr Pound of "having it in" for him because during the show, he joked about the Labour MP once being a bus driver.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/topstories/tm_objectid=16246836&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=tory-mp-wallops-labour-mp-name_page.html   (837 words)

  
 MP tracked down by ‘love child’ - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mr Stephen Pound, a Labour MP, said he received a letter from the daughter, identified only as Lucy, whom he had apparently fathered while serving as a sailor in the Royal Navy.
The mother had known only that Pound was 18 at the time, called "Precious" — his school nickname — and was a sailor who was "a nutter who died at sea in the Seventies".
Mr Pound, who has two teenaged children, said he and his wife welcomed the new addition to the family.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan262005/f9.asp   (282 words)

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