The Conservative education spokesman Lord James Douglas-Hamilton welcomed the move to allow same-sex couples to adopt jointly.

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The scheme was attacked by James Douglas-Hamilton, the Scottish Tories' education spokesman.

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James Douglas (male, age range: 25-35), a Scottish Knight with a personal vendetta against Edward I for killing his father, and one of Robert the Bruce's trusted lieutenants.

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The debate was prompted by Tory MSP Lord James Douglas Hamilton, who wrote to Mr Blair asking him to lift the act, which he described as "anachronistic and anomalous injustice".

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Joining Mr Kennedy was Menzies Campbell, Mr Dewar's university friend, and the Lib Dems' foreign affairs spokesman, who walked beside former Tory minister and Tory MSP for the Lothians region, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, another of Mr Dewar's lifelong friends.

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"I condemn the killing of Paul Douglas and James Brolan, " the Director-General declared.

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Mr Douglas and James Brolan, both British nationals, died when the US military unit they were accompanying came under attack.

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And a third set of calculations, by Douglas Staiger and James Stock of Harvard and Mark Watson of Princeton, tells roughly the same story (see chart for their estimates).

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Jules Verne's book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1954 with Kirk Douglas starring as sailor Ned Land and James Mason as Nemo.

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James Paterson Martin chauffeur to the First Minister, Scottish Executive (Edinburgh) Douglas Scott Matheson (Crieff, Perth and Kinross) - For services to Art and Design Education.

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