• The other members of Congress who worked so hard: Michael Michaud -- (applause) -- Phil Hare -- Phil is right here. (Applause.) Harry Brown -- Harry Brown did great work on this. (Applause.) And so many others.

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  • They were discussing how we all might better advance the story of black-brown unity as opposed to black-brown conflict.

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  • He also argues that avoiding all development on risky areas would mean forgoing some of the brown-field land which the government is keen to use: Mr Prescott wants 60% of new homes built on brown-field sites.

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  • The make-every-shooter-as-brown-as-possible trend has apparently worn off, and the shooters of this past year quite literally popped with color.

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  • Zuckerberg, wearing jeans, a brown T-shirt and a brown hoodie, acknowledged that his company needs to make improvements.

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  • It introduced university tuition fees and a bigger role for private providers in publicly funded health care, a reform that may, in time, dramatically alter the shape of the NHS. But the Blair-Brown rift stalled the reform process, and it more or less ceased during Mr Brown's three-year premiership.

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  • There, zoologists were able to compare the creature with its closest relative, the forest-dwelling brown-tailed vontsira, and finally confirm its identity.

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  • But the family-owned Brown-Forman is not for sale.

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  • For dessert, the Philippine-inspired, brown-sugar fried Banana Lumpia is a perfect bite into a hard wrap cover to unleash the mushy and very sweet inside.

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  • So, whatever measures he introduces in the next month or so, it will be up to his successor - and Gordon Brown - to deal with the consequences of this apparently escalating row.

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  • When the practice of managing up gets confused with promotion of self-interest, brown-nosing, manipulation, the gymnastics of corporate climbing, or other mind games, a good theory rapidly becomes twisted resulting in a false and dangerous reality.

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  • The traditional format of a classical-music concert turns off the iPod generation, says Alan Brown, principal of arts-research firm Wolf Brown, which is studying alternative approaches for the New World Symphony.

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  • The band - fronted by Ian Brown - have never played at the Isle of Wight Festival before.

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  • Forty-two years old, with cropped light-brown hair, tenth-grader looks, and a fluttering, finchlike energy, he is an odd mixture of the nerdy and the messianic.

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  • More to the point, in the banlieues, the working-class, disproportionately brown-skinned suburbs of cities such as Nice, Avignon and Strasbourg, the jobless rate can be as high as 40%.

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  • The better news for the prime minister, however, was the reaction he got from his backbenchers - and even Gordon Brown - when he defended his top up fees about-face.

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  • On Wednesday evening, they paraded into 10 Downing Street -- Brown's official residence -- for a dinner described as a working meeting.

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  • He then rose to prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - replacing his idol Clifford Brown - and soon became one of the most in-demand trumpeters.

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  • The urgency of the hour demands that we make common cause with all of America's workers -- white, black, brown -- all of whom are being hammered by this recession, all of whom are yearning for that spring to come.

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  • Despite the health benefits, many people don't want to spend 40 to 50 minutes cooking brown rice, so they resort to quick-cooking brown rice, which can take only five to 15 minutes to prepare.

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  • The reason private equity was allowed these tax breaks is that for a long time, the Treasury - under the then chancellor Gordon Brown - believed that the buying and selling of whole companies by private equity increased the efficiency of those companies, and simultaneously created a valuable new industry for the City of London.

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  • Since then, Sadana has jumped on board with SmartMoney Entrepreneurs, a company co-founded by Jeremy Andrews and David Brown-Landron, as its business development and strategic planner.

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  • Of the generation of persons 13 to 17 years of age (our "adopted children"), 100% are "foreign-born minority:" one a brown-skinned Romani boy from Bulgaria and three boys and one girl from Ethiopia.

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  • Or head over to another historical spot, the Brown Hotel , where you can soak up all that booze with the one and only Hot Brown -- an open-face sandwich casserole layered with bacon and Mournay sauce -- at the English Grill.

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  • Anthony Silva, a videogame-store clerk from Long Island, clutched brown-bagged Budweiser cans in each hand on the Port Washington line, his girlfriend nodding off at his side.

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  • Despite the chancellor's relatively decent record running the economy, the endless Brown-Blair skirmishes have left deep doubts about what Prime Minister Brown would do.

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  • Available in several colors--including Dragon Jacquard, Burnt Adobe and Roasted Brown--it means college students can now rock out to their favorite tunes as they make their way across campus.

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  • People with this disorder usually have reddish-brown skin, ginger or reddish hair, and hazel or brown eyes.

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  • Around the fourth day of the illness, a rash - flat red or brown blotches - may appear, usually starting on the forehead and spreading downwards.

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  • The tactics were just right - something that had almost always been the case under Brown - as the Scots pressed and harried the Germans, denying them the opportunity to get into their stride.

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