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Time to let Brown get on with the job
THERE can be few who do doubt both Gordon Brown’s sincerity in his letter to the family of Jamie Janes and his honesty in his apology for the apparent errors it contained. Yet the prime minister is hounded for his bad handwriting. Full Article at Press and Journal
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has personally apologized to the mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan who was angered by what she said was the leader's botched letter of condolence, a tape released Tuesday showed. Full Article at eTaiwan News
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Reporting from London - Let down by his own bad handwriting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown found himself apologizing yet again today to a woman whose name he misspelled in a condolence letter over the death of her son in Afghanistan. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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I think very carefully [about] what I say, and I wanted to assure her that the words that I was using, even if she had found them difficult to read, which I understand from my writing, were sincerely meant ... The last thing on my mind was to cause any offense to Jacqui Janes.
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David Miliband was never a candidate for the high representative job
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We have tried to provide the best equipment in the world. We have increased the investment we've made in helicopters, in vehicles and in the equipping of the armed forces in a way that we have never done in our country before. The idea that we are in any way careless or in any way unthinking about the d...
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I'm a parent who understands the feelings when something goes terribly, terribly wrong, and I understand also how long it takes for people to handle and deal with the grief we have all experienced.
