Financial Times
Andersen's collapse results in fee bonus for Big Four rivals
The dominance of the Big Four auditors has directly raised the fees companies pay to have their accounts verified, according to a study that is likely to trigger a new row about the effects of audit concentration. The report was sponsored by BDO Stoy Hayward, a rival to the Big Four, but carried out independently by the London School of Economics.
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BBC News Online
Are electoral slogans working?
Tony Travers, a local government expert from the London School of Economics, analysed this year's slogans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7371802.stm

Christian Science Monitor
Afghan insurgency spreading north
In the northern province of Baghlan, insurgent group Hizb-i-Islami is growing in presence, says Antonio Giustozzi, a researcher at the London School of Economics and an expert on the Afghan insurgency.
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Globe and Mail, Canada
Johnson, Livingstone star in London mayoral follies
‘Ken Livingstone is a most extraordinary character, a vast fish in a medium-sized political pool,’ said Tony Travers of the Greater London Group research centre at the London School of Economics.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080424.wmayor
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AFP
London mayor hopefuls battle for Muslim vote
But some suggest that Muslims' voting habits could be starting to change. ‘All the statistics say Livingstone is likely to get more of the ethnic minority votes (but) Labour's advantage in this sphere is declining,’ said Tony Travers of the London School of Economics. ‘As earlier migrants have lived in Britain longer and longer, they're likely to drift off towards mainstream political behaviour.’
(Source: Lexis)

The Australian
Grim outlook for Brown as Labour faces drubbing in local elections
‘It's difficult to think of a worse electoral and polling background to a set of local elections’ for Labour, said local government specialist Tony Travers, from the London School of Economics.
‘I would be surprised if Labour did not do as badly as, or slightly worse than, their performance in 2004 when they came third in the national equivalent vote share.'’
(Source: Lexis)

Guardian
Other lives
Obituary of Margaret Meade, who taught at LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/29/3

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The Star
Beijing's links to Africa under the gun
‘We tend to look at China's presence through the lens of pariah states,’ says Chris Alden of London School of Economics and author of China in Africa. ‘But there are 53 countries in Africa, and China has relations with 49.’ And he adds, since the 1970s when China built the Tanzam Railway from Tanzania to Zambia as a political gesture, it has constructed major road and telephone networks and rehabilitated public buildings.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/419055

The Star (26 April)
China ready to discuss Tibet
But yesterday, the government's official news agency Xinhua quoted an unnamed senior government official saying Beijing was reaching out and responding to requests from ‘the Dalai side’ for talks. ‘This has to be very significant,’ Christopher R Hughes, an international relations specialist at the London School of Economics, said last night. But that significance is not because the talks signalled any change in China's Tibet policy, he said. ‘I think the Olympics explains this decision 100 per cent,’ he said.
http://www.thestar.com/article/418701

The Journal (24 April)
Ascending the Ivory Tower
Article by Sam Friedman, a postgraduate studying sociology at LSE.
http://journal-online.co.uk/articles/show/3095

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