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September 22, 2010
But the fact is, nothing much is going to happen until dusk.When evening falls the transformation is exhilarating Suddenly the streets are packed. The harbour – a forest of masts, now that the boats have returned – is ablaze with lights and lanterns and has become a hawkers’ convention of competing yells as boat [...]
September 22, 2010
Shell plans to increase the money spent on exploring for oilfields to £1bn both this year and next year. Investors had been concerned that Shell wasn’t doing enough to replace its falling oil reserves.While high oil prices have been kind to BP and Shell, they haven’t been good news for the world economy. Paul [...]
September 22, 2010
His father, Joe Jackson, was quoted in the German press recently, saying the singer was thinking of abandoning his Neverland ranch and moving to Berlin – scene of the baby-dangling episode in which he suspended his five-month-old son from a fourth-floor balcony to the horror of the fans arrayed below.. According to his lawyers [...]
September 21, 2010
We are confident the therapy will lead to an early resolution but I’d rate his chances of playing Thursday as 50-50. Lee, who scored a courageous unbeaten 43 and took five wickets during Australia’s sensational two-run defeat to England at Edgbaston, was yesterday taken to a Birmingham hospital after experiencing swelling and discomfort in [...]
September 21, 2010
But his dream was still, as it had been when he was in Beirut, to retire to a ranch in the Canadian mountains and raise animals.I remember one night in the seaside garden of an old house in Beirut, where we were having dinner in the early 1970s. A man who lacked the self-confidence [...]
September 21, 2010
It is a blunt instrument that penalises legitimate as well as profligate use of hosepipes, while having no effect on wasteful water use by any other means, or at any other time of year. In contrast, a water meter is a simple, practical device that enables customers to pay for the water they use, [...]
September 21, 2010
He could have been playing himself in a film about a handsome, courageous young reporter who always got the story and the girl. Peter Jennings was wearing an old trench coat and waiting for a taxi in the rain the first time I ever saw him, in 1972. Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio [...]
September 21, 2010
At the first rehearsal, Sutch made the group laugh so much with his ludicrous vocals that they overlooked his lack of vocal ability and made him their singer, calling themselves Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. Little was conscripted in 1958 and became a drummer with the Royal Fusiliers.On being demobbed, “Carlo” Little met [...]
September 21, 2010
Tony Blair himself agrees that the Human Rights Act might have to be amended. He makes it clear that, for him, however much human rights judges and lawyers might disapprove, salus populi suprema lex.So what is left for the Tories? To insist that they were right all along? Everyone seems too impressed by Blair’s [...]
September 21, 2010
The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each [...]