Scottish worthies including Charles Kennedy, a former Liberal Democrat leader, and Lord Martin, once speaker of the House of Commons, campaigned in vain to keep Stobhill as it was.It is the kind of limited administrative shift that typifies Scotland's health-care policy these days: smaller hospitals folded into bigger ones, with extra investment attached to assuage local concerns.
Mr Krajisnik, who was once speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, was a close aide to Radovan Karadzic, who is still wanted on war-crimes charges.A German opera company cancelled a production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" because it featured a severed head of Muhammad, among other religious leaders.
In recent months, Mr. Livingston, a Louisiana Republican who was once speaker-designate of the House, has consulted with Vice President Dick Cheney and with Karl Rove, when he was still the top White House political strategist.
Mr. Sangma has been a member of Parliament eight times, a minister in the central government several times and was once the speaker of the Lok Sabha and the chief minister of Meghalaya.
Besides his long career in the Legislature — he was once the speaker of the Assembly — Mr. Doria is the mayor of Bayonne, where he no doubt saw firsthand the shortage of housing in New Jersey.
Particular targets of his wrath were his vice-president, Joyce Mujuru, and her husband, an influential ZANU-PF stalwart who used to head the army.Divide and ruleMr Mugabe had kinder words for Emmerson Mnangagwa, once the speaker of parliament, who is also thought to be a presidential hopeful.
The teachers' union gave its blessing to a new, larger board, allowing for more mayoral appointees, pending Mr. Giuliani's departure; and the once immovable speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, anticipating the election of a fellow Democrat to City Hall, appointed a panel to study the question.
Drudge called it, naming the Democratic congresswoman from California the once and future Speaker of the House.
Campaign ads from outside groups have denounced Justice Prosser, who was once a Republican speaker of the State Assembly, as a "rubber stamp" for Mr. Walker.
Campaign ads from outside groups have denounced Justice Prosser, who was once a Republican speaker of the State Assembly, as a "rubber stamp" for Governor Walker.
A Conservative minister who once called the speaker of the House of Commons a "stupid, sanctimonious dwarf" has resigned from the government to run as his deputy.
