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 | | Howard was born in Gorseinon, south Wales, the son of immigrant parents; his father, born in Romania, had arrived in Wales in 1936, and his mother had been born in Russia. | | | Despite his association with this policy Howard became a senior member of the Cabinet of John Major, as secretary of state for employment (1990-1992) and then home secretary (1992-1997). | | | Howard, Michael (1941-), British politician, leader of the Conservative Party (2003-). |
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| | Encyclopedia: Michael Howard |
| | The Right Honourable Michael Howard, QC, MP (born July 7, 1941) is a British politician and caretaker Leader of the Opposition and the Conservative Party, having formally resigned the post on 7 October 2005. | | | Howard was named as co-respondent in the high profile divorce case of former 1960s model Sandra Paul. | | | Sandra Howard in 1969 Sandra Claire Howard (née Paul) was born in 1941. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Michael-Howard
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| | John Howard - definition of John Howard in Encyclopedia |
| | Howard also had a difficult issue in the allegations that the Governor General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, in his previous job as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, had protected Anglican priests accused of paedophilia in various churches: eventually Hollingworth resigned. | | | Howard's first success in office occurred after the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, when he responded to public outcry by persuading the state governments to effectively prohibit the ownership of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. | | | John Winston Howard (born July 26 1939), is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, coming to office on March 11, 1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/John_Howard
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| | Biography of Michael Howard |
| | Michael Howard held the post of shadow Foreign Secretary (1997-1999) and he returned to the front bench, under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith, as Shadow Chancellor (2001-2003). | | | Howard had a brief stint at the Environment and then from 1993 to 1997 he had his famous period as a right-wing Home Secretary. | | | Michael Howard wooed Sandra with a copy of Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. |
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| | Michael Howard - If only he were George Bush. By James Harding |
| | No doubt Howard had little choice but to exploit British anger at Blair for acting as the American president's "poodle" by joining in the decision to invade Iraq. | | | As a politician, Howard's trademark has been the stalwart defense of unpopular positions. | | | The extraordinary awkwardness of the encounter—dogged reporter asking and asking while politician dodges and dodges—was remembered both for Paxman's smugness and Howard's squirming. |
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| | Encyclopedia: The Conservative Party (UK) |
| | Its current leader is Michael Howard, who as Leader of the Opposition heads the Shadow Cabinet. | | | On 28 October sufficient letters were presented to the chairman of the 1922 Committee to initiate a vote of confidence in Iain Duncan Smith. | | | In October 2003 (week beginning October 27) there were strong calls for Iain Duncan Smith to resign as leader or face a vote of confidence. |
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| | CNN.com - UK's Howard: I will unite Tories - Oct. 30, 2003 |
| | Howard, the hard-line Thatcherite, who served as home secretary under Prime Minister John Major, is seen as having stature -- an experienced politician and bruiser in parliamentary debates. | | | Howard is seen as experienced politician who can challenge Blair. | | | Howard, 62, has been in politics for more than 20 years after training as a lawyer. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/30/uk.tory.leadership
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| | Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists |
| | Howard made his career in the law and fought several elections unsuccessfully before entering Parliament in 1983. | | | ``Howard seems to be leading his party to another calamitous defeat in the impending election,'' Crick concludes. | | | After losing the leadership to William Hague in 1997, Howard finally became leader of his party in 2003. |
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| | But this was not the direct consequence of any legislation, more a response by the courts to a perceived desire on the part of the public, articulated by politicians, for tougher sentences. | | | Yet while his qualities are known to his colleagues and his parliamentary skills are unquestionable, he will have the hardest task persuading voters that he is not an unfeeling and faintly sinister throwback to the Major era. | | | It derives principally from his time as home secretary, when his insistence on tougher penalties for criminals offended the sensibilities of the liberals whose law and order policies had so palpably failed that the Tory government faced the gravest crime crisis in history. |
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| | BBC NEWS Election 2005 The Basics Profile: Michael Howard |
| | Being the lone Tory in a Labour stronghold was early evidence of the confidence and thick skin required of a successful politician. | | | Mr Howard's own parents were immigrants from Romania who went on to run a clothes shop in Llanelli. | | | His wife of 30 years, Sandra, a former model, is to play an active part in the election campaign. |
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| | Michael Howard (politician) |
| | The son of a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Howard attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Union[?] in 1962. | | | A barrister, he became a QC in 1982 and entered Parliament in 1983 as member for Folkestone and Hythe[?]. | | | Michael Howard (born July 7, 1941 in Llanelli[?], Wales) is a British Conservative Member of Parliament and former Home Secretary (1993-97). |
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http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Howard_(politician).html
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| | perfect.co.uk / Two facts about Michael Howard |
| | As the Tory leader calls for criminals to be kept behind bars, police are investigating his role in a royal pardon for two men facing 18 years in prison. | | | Compare this non-existent scrutiny of politicians to the obsessive reporting of David Blunkett& misdemeanours. | | | Conservative leader Michael Howard wants to tighten the laws to stop illegal immigrants entering Britain. |
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| | Melanie Phillips on Michael Howard |
| | The British Conservative party has elected Michael Howard as its first Jewish leader — and potential Prime Minister — since Benjamin Disraeli led the Tories in the 19th century. | | | Howard is by far the most successful politician they've got. | | | As Home Secretary in the last Conservative government in the 1990s, he became the most unpopular politician in Britain, as much because of his personality as his tough policies. |
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| | BBC NEWS Have Your Say Michael Howard speech: Your reaction |
| | Very nice to hear but at the end of the day, he's a politician like Tony Blair and old Blair has managed to finally demolish any belief that the public has in politicians telling the truth so who cares what any of them say as the majority of us know their lying anyway. | | | Mr Howard is putting on a brave effort but I still see him resigning in May 2005 after another heavy election defeat. | | | If I were Blair I would not be smiling right now - he dared Howard to show his true colours and he has. |
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| | The Tories' Fate Is in His Hands |
| | Howard supported the war in Iraq, so he can't exploit the most damaging issue for Blair. | | | For now, Howard is chiseling away at Blair on the economy. | | | Indeed, the prosecutorial "barrister with a brief" approach that alienated voters after he became party leader a year ago was mostly under wraps. |
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| | Michael has previously held internship positions at The White House, The New York Times, New York City Hall, and on various political campaigns. | | | He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and currently attends evening classes at Brooklyn Law School. | | | Jan was raised in Southern California and he studied Geography at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Leader: Michael Howard |
| | It was also bad luck for Mr Howard that the evangelical Blair style against which his speech was so self-consciously constructed was also rather conspicuously abandoned by the prime minister in Brighton; Mr Howard, in other words, may be attacking a diminishing target. | | | Mr Duncan Smith's nasty and ill-judged party conference speech in Blackpool a year ago was another reminder of how difficult it has been for successive Tory leaders, from John Major onwards, to find an effective rhetorical alternative to Tony Blair. | | | The most settled prospectus was his old Home Office specialities of crime and immigration. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian The Michael Howard I knew... |
| | "Michael Howard will remind voters why 18 years of Tory government was so devastating for Britain... | | | "Whatever the failure of the last years of the Major government, and I was one of its critics, the one cabinet minister who consistently delivered success was Michael Howard. | | | Tony Blair clashed with Mr Howard while shadowing the Tory employment then home secretary, and is poised to renew hostilities |
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| | Expat Yank: One American living in the south of England |
| | But Tory leader Michael Howard says Mr Blair should resign, while Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy warned Mr Blair could become a "lame duck" leader... | | | That's because, like him or loathe him, there is little doubt that Tony Blair is by far the best politician this country has produced in the last generation. | | | Ever seen opposition politicians in such a state of barely-concealed panic about a vote they had just won? |
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| | jenrooroo :: Main Page |
| | The Supreme Court has overturned one man’s death sentence. | | | People close to the top apparently think that the three most likely nominees are appeals court judges John Roberts or J. Michael Luttig, or Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. | | | The vote over whether to change Senate rules and prevent filibustering for judicial appointments could take place as soon as tomorrow. |
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| | Depleted Uranium |
| | Oh, and the majority population of the province has been pushed to support extreme politicians. | | | So if the Republicans are to form the majority after 2008, the president has to get really rough with these folks. | | | Nations need smart politicians - like Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan - but often get less-than-smart people like Tony Blair. |
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Tory leader's 'I believe' pledge |
| | But Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said Mr Howard should be judged by his record and not his dreams. | | | I believe it is the duty of every politician to serve the people by removing the obstacles in the way of these ambitions | | | Labour Party chairman Ian McCartney said the statement showed Mr Howard was "stuck in a failed Tory past" and "Thatcherism is safe in his hands". |
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Verdict on Tory poll showing |
| | And Labour has lost no time in pointing out that his predecessor but one, William Hague, was in virtually the same, victorious position in 2000, only to be resoundingly beaten by Tony Blair at the general election the following year. | | | He will be looking for other signs - from the London mayoral election for example - that voters have fallen out of love with the government. | | | But his party's performance was certainly good enough to allow him and other senior Tories to suggest they had created the launch pad for the general election. |
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| | Norton Books - Browse by Subject: History |
| | Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South | | | Michael E. Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920—1941 | | | Michael Les Benedict, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson |
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| | I believe it is the duty of every politician to serve the people by removing the obstacles in the way of these ambitions | | | Michael Howard, who last year was elected leader of Britian's main opposition party, the Conservatives, has published a list of his beliefs. | | | The state can be small in two ways: either in the economic sense, in terms of the proportion of national income it consumes; or in the judicial sense, in terms of how much the legal system pushes us around. |
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| | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Society Full text: Michael Howard's speech on crime |
| | They know that there is a right path for our society - one based on personal responsibility, moderation, truthfulness, honesty, and liberty under the law. | | | But they also understand that while politicians and the police must take the lead in tackling crime and disorder, families and communities have a part to play too. | | | Why do some parents allow their children out until the early hours? |
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| | Don Troiani’s Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War. | | | by J. Duncan Campbell and Michael J. O’Donnell. | | | Major General John Alexander McClernand, Politician in Uniform |
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| | Stephen Pollard • Michael Howard - worse even than IDS? |
| | However it seems that this is all being abandoned, Michael Howerd should be supporting Blair on foundation hospitals, university fees etc. setting an even more radical agenda. | | | The war is my overriding concern, and Howard's stance on it is reprehensible. | | | I used to regard Michael Howard as a serious figure, a man who as Home Secretary insisted that his task was not to stem the increase in crime but to reduce it, and who had what the Tories used to call 'bottom'. |
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| | Zuhair al-Maliky, the senior investigative judge at the central criminal court of Iraq, established by the US occupation authorities, told the Guardian: "I am simply the judge who signed the documents. | | | The judge who issued arrest warrants against the controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi and his nephew Salem, the head of the tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein, yesterday denied the move was politically motivated and said he would pursue the extradition of the two men if they refused to return to Iraq. | | | The disclosure comes days after the Ministry of Defence told MPs that military police were investigating more than twice as many civilian deaths and injuries to Iraqis involving British troops as ministers had previously admitted. |
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| | Unfortunately for them, all British politicians appear to suffer from a low level of trust and esteem among voters which explains why, at the last election, turnout dropped below 60 percent for the first time since 1918. | | | On the face of it, in a month’s time, Blair should be back in Downing Street. | | | Most opinion polls give Labour a narrow edge over the main opposition Conservative party whose third leader since 2001 is the veteran — but not particularly admired — politician Michael Howard, the home secretary in Mrs. |
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| | Re: Time to compose a list of Jewish/non-Jewish companies & politicians |
| | > >>For a politician: >> >>Michael Howard >> > > Not a practising Jew, AIUI. | | | Re: Time to compose a list of Jewish/non-Jewish companies & politicians | | | For all I know they might consider it Jewish if there is even 1 Jewish employee - they said it was a Jewish company in the past. |
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| | Amazon.com: The First World War: Books: Michael Howard |
| | For those who know more, Howard clearly states, and supports, his opinion on many disputed topics, such as the role of German naval construction in fueling Anglo-German emnity, and leading to eventual British military intervention, which arguably made the war a world, as opposed to a European, war. | | | Succinctly expressive, Howard's style concentrates narrative and interpretation within a few sentences, but a deep historical controversy often lurks behind his concision, such as who was responsible for igniting the war. | | | For Americans, many of whom consider this war as merely a little known prelude to the Second World War, this book is an indispensable introduction. |
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| | The public's expectations, raised by the rhetoric of politicians, have not been realised. | | | It is the transfer of power from politicians back to people - the handing of control over to citizens and the professionals who serve them. | | | We all think we're helping when we pass that new law, impose that new regulation, levy that new charge, fee or tax. |
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| | Hecht: Information From Answers.com |
| | Michael Hecht, former name of Michael Howard, British politician and leader of the Conservative Party since 2003. | | | This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. | | | Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet, historian, philosopher, and author. |
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| | icNorthWales - Howard talks sense in fight against crime |
| | Howard realises that the decline of society is based on dwindling respect for authority and an abdication of responsibility among parents. | | | HATS off to Michael Howard, a politician talking the common sense that all Britain wants to hear. | | | Yesterday, in a hard-hitting outline of Tory crime policy which harked back to his days as a no-nonsense Home Secretary, Howard said Labour's electronic tagging early-release policy would be scrapped. |
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| | Murky.org: Michael Howard on House Arrest |
| | Interesting, my letter would have reached Michael Howard yesterday and I'm not claiming cause and effect (but would it not be nice?) - Michael Howard spoke out against House Arrest today. | | | Interesting, my letter would have reached Michael Howard yesterday and I'm not claiming cause and effect (but would it not be nice?) - Michael Howard spoke out against House Arrest today. | | | 'He disagrees with the plans to permit suspected terrorists to be put under house arrest on the order of the Home Secretary because nobody should be "deprived of their liberty on the say so of a politician."' |
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| | Ananova - Rooney Scores In Top Magazine Awards |
| | Conservative Party leader Michael Howard picked up politician of the year and Franz Ferdinand the best band title at the GQ event. | | | The editor's special award went to outrageous rocker Ozzy Osbourne and fellow music great George Michael was rewarded for his lifetime contribution. | | | The stars of offbeat comedy show Little Britain - Matt Lucas and David Walliams - won comedians of 2004. |
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| | A Western Heart: Compassionate NeoConservatism |
| | The Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 suggests strongly that the Howard Government has a keen historical eye when it comes to muzzling allegedly subversive dissenters. | | | I should make it clear that PC Copperfield himself is NOT representative of the Plods in his Comments section, as he is not only a good shot, but is also a member of the NRA and is probably more proficient with a gun than any other cop in Britain. | | | PM Howard, who stated just this week that there would be no change to Australia’s current ‘non-discriminatory’ migration policy, very much needs to be reminded what the consensus currently is, because on this topic (if the polls are anything to go by), it’s overwhelmingly not with him. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Full text: Michael Howard's speech on childcare |
| | Second, our role as politicians is to support the choices that individual families make - and as everyone's aspirations are different those choices will vary dramatically from family to family. | | | As I have said before, politicians don't have all the answers and they shouldn't pretend that they do. | | | Full text: Michael Howard's farewell speech as Tory leader |
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| | NewsHour Extra Top Story: Who Was Behind the London Bomb Attack? -- July 18, 2005 |
| | Many expressed shock that the perpetrators were born and raised in Britain. | | | "It will take us a long time to come to terms with the fact that these attacks appear to have been committed by those who were born and brought up in our midst," Conservative British politician Michael Howard told the BBC. | | | But the question remains as to who might have supported the suicide bombers. |
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| | In 1939 Bernat Hecht, the father of the UK politician Michael Howard, moved to Wales to escape persecution of Jews in Romania. | | | In the Second Balkan War (1913) Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Romania and the Ottoman Empire fought against Bulgaria. | | | Only half of Romania's eight hundred thousand Jewish population survived the Second World War. |
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| | FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES |
| | In a telegram sent to France, Zhirinovsky, who is also Deputy Speaker of the Duma, said: "We are ready with volunteer units of football fans and activists who have served in military combat hot spots. | | | Far right politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky says he already has hundreds of volunteers many with special forces training. | | | Nu Labour that’s who; in yet another fine example of politicians limping with their brains (again). |
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| | Time to compose a list of Jewish/non-Jewish companies & politicians | | | Time to compose a list of Jewish/non-Jewish companies & politicians | | | So for a company that is Jewish - I realize that it is hard to consider a company as Jewish now-a-days with mass ownership etc but let's indulge the way the hate lot think: Tesco (although it has changed over the last few years) For a politician: Michael Howard |
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| | Rock The Vote UK - Pop Music |
| | Has a politician said something which will affect YOUR family, be it for the best or the worst? | | | If there is only one factor in one party's policy which will improve your life and your future, then it will take less than a minute to tick the box for them and for you. | | | The internet is a fabulous tool which could be used to our advantage in getting all sides and all policies from each party, so have a look at their websites. |
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| | so when howard gives a nervous mediocre performance in his first PM's questions, all the marionette commentators say how he was much better than IDS ever was, and it is good to have a serious politician back leading the tory party. | | | All the sheep say Michael Howard is a big beast and better than Ian duncan smith. | | | He is just as crap as IDS, hague, or Major, with less personality and charm then any of them. |
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| | The only way to get away with this is to stitch up Parliament in the last weeks available, to take advantage of Michael Howard's - a politician completely captured by the Home Office's control bureaucrats - term as Tory "leader" to push through this Establishment beatup before anything democratic might happen. | | | If it is so non-urgent that it can be put off to 2008 and beyond, as his documents prove, why not? | | | If you don't have one of the 93 MPs, hold them responsible. |
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| | Findory : World Art News at IrishArt.com |
| | He was also behind a prison riot that nearly led to the end of the career of Conservative politician Michael Howard and admitted to other disturbing behaviour such as trying to poison... | | | Williams is currently serving five life sentences for attempting to set off a nail bomb in a busy Liverpool street. | | | World Art News at IrishArt.com (10 days ago) |
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