Peter Mandelson, Europe's trade commissioner before becoming Gordon Brown's minister for everything, described the dispute as the biggest, most difficult and most expensive in WTO history.

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But Chief Justice John Roberts questioned the assertion Brown was initially enthused about becoming a father.

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Labour's Christmas from hell was visited upon it by personal grievances, notably Mr Brown's grievance at not becoming party leader after the death of John Smith, and his continuing ambition to grab the top job one day.

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Prescott Bush, W.'s grand-daddy, made a fortune in the oak-panelled world of Brown Brothers Harriman in New York before becoming a senator from Connecticut.

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Meanwhile, Mr Brown is these days in danger of becoming the champion of both the Labour left and the anti-European Tory press: a strange political base for the party's arch-moderniser.

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One of them, Maha Atal, graduated from my alma mater, Brown University, and interned here before becoming a fellow for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, working in Pakistan, reporting and blogging.

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The medical examiner said proper procedures to identify the body were followed after the body first arrived, and went on to describe how a body deteriorates in phases after death, turning dark brown, for example, with parts becoming enlarged.

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The jury heard the men had been school friends but later drifted into rival groups, with Mr Brown joining the Lewsey Farm gang and Mr Beckford becoming a member of the Marsh Farm gang.

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Brown has certainly come back stronger this season, becoming one of the Giants' star performers and he is being tipped for an England call in Steve McNamara's first game in charge against France next month.

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Baroness Scotland was appointed attorney general by Gordon Brown when he became prime minister in June 2007, becoming the first woman to hold the post.

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Brown had come to him because her fallopian tubes were blocked, preventing her from becoming pregnant.

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Brown told the BBC that he had no hesitation in speaking to Distillery when they approached him about becoming their new boss.

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