Empty cubicles with Aeron chairs and elegant brass desk lamps fill the brown granite headquarters of MBIA in Armonk, N.

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The state Senate on Tuesday voted 25-9 to ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fin, a key ingredient in the traditional Chinese soup, sending the bill on to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.

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"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.

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After earning her degree in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 (where she kept her own bottle of Bowmore in her desk drawer for special occasions), she spent a year studying the chemistry of Newcastle Brown Ale.

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Under Gordon Brown all we'll get is "he knows best" politics, as he sits as his desk expecting a grateful nation to wait with bated breath for the latest master-plan to emerge.

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