• Ms Bokova toured several classrooms with the Secretary-General and Mr Brown, listening to young students read and show basic science experiments.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • 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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  • Mr Susman's comments chime with that of ex-UN deputy secretary general Mark Malloch-Brown, who said the US would be wise to keep out of the debate.

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  • Even if he sticks to the same general strategy, Mr Brown needs to tackle some of the specific reasons why the public has become so critical of the government's performance on health.

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  • There are an expected 70 to 80 days of parliamentary business remaining before Gordon Brown calls a general election.

    BBC: Queen's speech

  • That could, at a stretch, drag things out until next spring, and a British general election (though Gordon Brown can wait until June 2010 if he wants to).

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • California's top elected officials, Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris, are refusing to defend Proposition 8, and there is a question about whether the Proposition 8 supporters have the right, or legal standing, to defend the measure in court.

    NPR: Calif. Gay Marriage Argument At High Court Tuesday

  • The new US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal, whom Mr Brown met in Afghanistan last week, might even go further.

    BBC: New emphasis on exit from Afghan war

  • Ms Bokova and Mr Brown joined the Secretary-General in a meeting with the President of Timor-Leste, Taur Matan Ruak.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION FIRST

  • Last month, he said Mr Blair had told him he did not think Mr Brown could win the next general election.

    BBC: Levy 'not bitter' towards Blair

  • Ever since Labour won Britain's general election 15 months ago, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, has been sticking grimly to the tight spending plans left behind by his Tory predecessor, while setting taxes and building fiscal frameworks to prove his prudence.

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  • At one of the most critical negotiating sessions, involving key leaders, U.S. President Obama sat next to British Prime Minister Brown, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon a few seats down, and a number of other heads of government gathered in the room.

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  • There are a number of contenders, including at least eight members of New York's delegation in the House of Representatives, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Caroline Kennedy, and her cousin, Robert Kennedy Jr.

    CNN: Bill Clinton mentioned for wife's Senate seat

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown has to call the next general election by next June.

    BBC: Rantzen will run for Parliament

  • This sort of humility might let Mr Brown appear to participate in the general pain: surrendering his pride might be a better form of kindred suffering than the sleepless overwork that often leaves him looking greyly gaunt.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • California's attorney general, whom we now call Gov. Jerry Brown, declined to investigate the bait-and-switch.

    WSJ: Allysia Finley: How Insider Politics Saved California's Train to Nowhere

  • He recently returned to the limelight advising Labour on its general election strategy and was among those coaching Gordon Brown ahead of the leadership debates.

    BBC: Row over Alastair Campbell on BBC Question Time panel

  • In 1965, Ms. Brown took over Cosmopolitan, then a flagging general-interest magazine, and transformed it to appeal to women.

    WSJ: Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies at Age 90

  • Mr Brown has now been granted permission by the Attorney General's office to ask for a new inquest.

    BBC: Joanne Foreman family wins right to new inquest bid

  • Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.

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  • Mr Brown, as he did successfully at the two previous general elections, portrays the Conservatives as eager to cut public spending.

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  • They want Gordon Brown to lead the party as prime minister into the general election whenever it takes place and they don't want to open the question of the leadership.

    BBC: Brown coup plot shows Labour 'deeply divided' - Cameron

  • Lord Jones is a former Director General of the Confederation of British Industry and was appointed by Gordon Brown as a trade ambassador in the Department for Business in 2007.

    BBC: Lord Digby Jones says EU migration policies are 'mad'

  • The Conservatives say that if a general election is held in June 2010 - the latest date Gordon Brown can choose to do so - then next year's show would go out during the election campaign.

    BBC: 'in talks' over Sir Alan job

  • Many would argue that Gordon Brown's "light-touch regulation" and general deregulation of banking, in the UK and around the world, did more to "unleash" the City than anything Margaret Thatcher did, and more to pave the way to the financial crisis.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher: The economy now and then

  • Gordon Brown in his budget shelved Labour's commitment to remove general capping of council budgets.

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  • In a brutal Senate race in Massachusetts, Scott Brown, the Republican, has made an icon of his General Motors truck with 200, 000 miles on the clock.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Brown of Automotive News said he wouldn't be surprised if General Motors and other automakers follow suit.

    CNN: SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list

  • Mr. Brown said that the vast majority of Dataium's business involves providing general data about online car-shopping trends.

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  • As for David Cameron, the rampant Conservative leader, who earlier in the week had mischievously pointed out that his party does not hold a single seat as statistically safe as Glasgow East, he advised Mr Brown to take his holiday (in Suffolk) and then hold a general election.

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