Mr Richardson was described by one member of the joint committee of standing "naked on this issue".

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The Financial Times (which belongs to Pearson, part-owner of this newspaper) reported an impossible-to-refute account that Zhou Yongkang, a member of the elite Politburo standing committee, had been privately stripped of his powers for lobbying too forcefully on behalf of Mr Bo.

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He is also the youngest member of the Politburo's supreme standing committee.

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Professor David Harper, Member of the IHP National Committee, presented his long-standing IHP Ecohydrology work on Lake Naivasha basin in Kenya.

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She's a member of the Senate Banking Committee , and that has hurt her standing back home when they're talking about the bailout, not the rescue plan but the bailout.

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As a result of media reforms introduced by Hu and Politburo Standing Committee member Li Changchun earlier this year, instructions have already been given to provinces and cities to stop interfering with efforts by media units under their jurisdictions to cover "negative" news and phenomena such as industrial and mining accidents.

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And Mr Wen is neither maverick nor powerless figurehead he is a senior member of the party's supreme body, the Politburo's nine-member standing committee.

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But the police, prosecutors, courts and intelligence services are overseen by fellow Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, said by some party insiders to have a more sympathetic view of Mr. Bo.

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