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

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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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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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