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NCR Today  I remember watching him from the gallery above.
Through the thick protective glass between the gallery and floor
(installed after someone threw a paint balloon to the floor
below a few years before) I cringed as Prime Minister Gordon
Brown gave a lackluster response during that oh-so-British of
institutions, Prime Minister's Questions. In them the leader of
the British Government subjects him or herself every week to
questions from the opposing parties and to the rest of the
elected members of parliament. Normally they're equal amounts
interrogation and displays of stunning wit among the different
members.  Brown was being grilled by Conservative leader David
Cameron about knife violence in central London, who was using a
rather large amount of dry humor to get his point across. Brown,
the leader of the Labour party which has held power for the past
17 years, responded with an off-