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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from June 6, 2008
A Great Healer Who Talks in Double Negatives
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THE SKETCHWho is Tony Blair any more? Who is he in the Middle East? Is he anyone? What answers does he have to the three big regional questions?Those questions are: Have you got any power? Have you got any money? All right, how about rich, powerful friends,...
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Let's Get Lost (15)Bruce Weber ****This reissued portrait of West Coast jazz trumpeter Chet Baker turns on a heartbreaking contrast between his beautiful youth in the Fifties and his ravaged looks in the late Eighties, when photographer Bruce Weber caught...
A Missed Opportunity to Feed the World
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LEADING ARTICLE UN SUMMITDespite some furious final-day haggling, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation summit in Rome ended last night with the usual platitudinous declarations of concern from delegates.The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon...
A Mystery Tied in Red Tape
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Stonehenge By Rosemary Hill PROFILE Pounds 12.99 (242p) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897When I visited Stonehenge in 1986, I had to climb a barbed-wire fence in the dead of night to get near the stones. I was caught by security and reported...
An Empire Falters at the Castle of Crossed Destinies
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The Siege By Ismail Kadare, trans David Bellos CANONGATE Pounds 16.99 (322p) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897The Ottoman pasha leads a vast army towards Albania, where a lone castle stands amid plains. When his first attack is beaten back,...
Aristocracy of Fashion Mourns Yves Saint Laurent
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The aristocracy of the international fashion world gathered in Paris yesterday to pay their last respects to the French couturier Yves Saint Laurent.Hundreds of people choked the narrow street outside the glise Saint-Roch, the church of "artists", to...
A Week in Books
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Four years ago, I watched with delirious but stunned villagers on the island of Paros as Greece snatched the European football championship. Church bells rang out over the scented hills. Patriotic fervour comes easily in a country that won its freedom...
Bare Buff Beastliness in the Banlieues
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Dreams from the Endz By Faiza Guene, trans Sarah Ardizzone CHATTO &WINDUS Pounds 11.99 (176pp) Pounds 10.79 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897Faza Gune's first novel, written when she was 17, sold over a quarter of a million copies. This second also draws...
Barrett Finds Home with Cronulla after Release by Wigan
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*RUGBY LEAGUETrent Barrett has signed with Cronulla for the next two seasons, following confirmation from Wigan that they have released him from the remaining year of his contract. Barrett is returning to Australia and taking a pay-cut because his pregnant...
Beat Surrender
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Bo Diddley has shuffled off, but his trademark rhythm, and his part in the creation of rock'n'roll, will remain. By ANDY GILLBo Diddley, who died earlier this week, was perhaps the least celebrated of the original pillars upon which the mighty, world-...
Big Brother Begins - but Does Anybody Still Care?
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Tonight, for the ninth year in a row, the presenter Davina McCall will bound enthusiastically on to our television screens to unveil this year's Big Brother contestants, including a Muslim convert, a Thai Buddhist and a reformed gangster who was deported...
Blair Backs Brown, but His Private View Is Less Supportive
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In public, Tony Blair rallied behind his successor yesterday, saying Gordon Brown could not be blamed for Britain's economic woes that are beyond his control."I said when I left I was going to be 100 per cent supportive of Gordon and the Government and...
Bohemian Buccaneers
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Pete and the Pirates won fans at last year's Reading Festival by serenading them in their tents. ELISA BRAY meets an oddball bunchOf all the new bands playing last summer's festivals, Pete and the Pirates caught they eye with storming sets. At their...
Bohemian Tales of Sex and Sensibility
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Uncommon Arrangements By Katie Roiphe VIRAGO Pounds 12.99 (343pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897Katie Roiphe is a sort of literary oyster. She can absorb masses of gossipy, ephemeral background and turn it into a pearl of distilled wisdom....
Bridge
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Kauko Koistinen first complimented, then reported in the Daily Bulletin Julian Stefanov's fine play, in Finland's match against Bulgaria at the European Championships.Koistinen opened the East hand with Three No-Trumps, which, under his methods, showed...
Caught in the Net
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With the speed at which some bands gather fans these days, it's possible to find yourself seeing them perform on vast, impersonal stages before you've caught them at an intimate local venue. So cider company Gaymers has the right idea with the grass-roots...
Chess
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Of all those playing chess today, Magnus Carlsen is the nearest to a "force of nature". Gary Kasparov had a real aura at his peak, as did Misha Tal before him and, a further few decades earlier, Alexander Alekhine. Facing today's top players, Carlsen...
Children of the Revolution
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There are more bicyles on Britain's roads than ever before - and in more shapes, sizes and styles. But who's who in the nation's new bike tribes? Simon Usborne hits our city streets and country lanes to find outRecumbent RidersThe rider: Stuart DennisonThe...
Collingwood's Comfort Zone Turning to Stony Ground
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In his matter of fact way, Paul Collingwood is neither making light of his current struggle for runs nor letting it get him down, not visibly, at any rate. He has been there before.Indeed, when the matter was raised with him the other day, he disarmed...
Confucius Says: More Karaoke!
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China's New Confucianism By Daniel A Bell PRINCETON UP Pounds 15.95 (240pp) (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897During the Cultural Revolution in China, Confucianism was one of "Great Helmsman" Mao's cherished hates. More recently - as Daniel Bell's book is...
Dexter Shows the Discipline to Punish Wasteful Somerset
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*CRICKET KENT 259-5 SOMERSET 222 Kent win by 37 runsA brave performance by Somerset opener Craig Kieswetter could not prevent Kent from cruising to victory in the delayed Friends Provident Trophy quarter-final yesterday.Kieswetter passed fifty for the...
Dhorasoo's Lonely Tale of Life as a Tournament Bit Player
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Former France international spoke to Glenn Moore about his remarkable film that reveals truth behind veneer of glamour and glory at major eventsThe pre-match video is a standard coaching tool used to motivate, relax, or instruct players. It is certain,...
Don't Blame Free Trade for Food Price Rises
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Sometimes an entire philosophy can be glimpsed in a single remark. So I am grateful to Andrew Dorward of London's School of Oriental and African Studies for his explanation of why it would not be in the interests of Africans to adopt genetically modified...
Doubts Remain over Broadband Speeds as Voluntary Code Agreed
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All the major internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to a voluntary code of practice designed to stamp out the over-selling of broadband speeds, but the issue is far from solved.Some 32 companies, including all the top five, have signed up to...
Elinor Lyon
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Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled with feisty, fearless girls and boysAuthor of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had...
Emmanuel Jal Musician
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CULTURAL LIFEBooksI am reading Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley by James Henke. It is about the early years when he was trying to make a band, and includes interviews with Marley's family. I am also reading Slave: My True Story, about...
Far from Harvard
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Unaccustomed Earth By Jhumpa Lahiri BLOOMSBURY Pounds 14.99 (333pp) Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897At the outset of Jhumpa Lahiri's third book, after the success of The Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, one begins to wonder if her...
Fears for Health of Briton Staging Hunger Strike in Guantanamo Bay
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There are growing fears for the health of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay after it emerged that he has begun a hunger strike in protest over American plans to put him on trial for alleged terror offences.Binyam Mohamed, 29, from west London,...
Film Belongs in School. Discuss
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Here's a headline you can easily imagine being spun the wrong way by a hostile journalist: "Government pays for pupils to watch movies in class". After all, to the suspicious parent, the combination of a schoolroom and a feature film hints at educational...
Fresh Pressure on BP as Its Chief in Russia Faces Inquiry
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TNK-BP chief executive to be interrogated by Russian investigators over 'corporate tax evasion'At BP's headquarters in St James's Square, there is a distinct sense that, after months of scattered but sustained disruptions to its vital Russian business,...
From Zero to Hero?
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For years, Wal-Mart was attacked for exploiting its staff and suppliers. But now the world's biggest retailer has stopped fighting its critics and started listening. By Stephen Foley Business AnalysisAt Wal-Mart, they have been packing up the war room...
FSA Urges Companies to Tighten Up Procedures in Takeover Deals
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The Financial Services Authority has warned investment banks, and other firms involved in deals, to tighten up measures to stop leaks of inside information about takeovers.The City watchdog said yesterday that firms from banks to printers had made progress...
Give Me the Death Penalty, Says the 'Mastermind' of September 11
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In his first public appearance since he was seized in his pyjamas five years ago, the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, told a military court in Guantanamo Bay yesterday that he would welcome the death penalty.The...
Guantanamo Briton Uses Freedom of Information Law
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION Binyam Mohamed has been held without trial by the US for six years. Now his lawyers have asked the UK to disclose what it knows about his fate, reports Robert Verkaik, Law EditorBritish diplomats have been working behind the scenes...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?
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Long, flowing beards and handlebar moustaches have long been a source of pride in India, but that may be coming to an end. By Andrew Buncombe Changing fashionsTarloch Singh was hiding from the sun beneath the awning of his rickshaw, half asleep and half...
Halfords Looking to Branch out into Central Europe as Sales Buck Downward Trend
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Halfords has revealed plans to accelerate its store numbers in central Europe, as UK consumers' thirst for bikes and car maintenance products drove its pre-tax profits up by 11 per cent.Its joint managing director Nick Wharton said the performance of...
Has the Time Come to Close the Book on Women-Only Literary Prizes?
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The big questionWhy are we asking this now?The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was presented at a typically ebullient ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday. As predicted by the bookies, Rose Tremain won the women's fiction prize for her...
Hero or Villain? It Depends
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!Hugo!: the Hugo Chavez story By Bart Jones BODLEY HEAD Pounds 12.99 (608pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897If it were the synopsis for a screenplay, it would seem overblown. A boy born into the care of his grandmother in a mud hut makes it...
Hey, Parents, Leave Those Kids Alone
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Last Night's TV A REVOLUTION IN CHILDHOOD BBC4That Dr Tanya Byron, the one who tells people how to raise their children. I've had my suspicions for some time. At the start of A Revolution in Childhood, Martha Kearney asked her panel of experts to come...
Housing Crash Worse Than Feared as Prices Slump by 2.4 per Cent
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Britain is heading for a housing recession deeper and more painful than even the most pessimistic of observers thought possible, with price falls rivalling those seen in the slump of the early 1990s.The Halifax House Price Index, published yesterday,...
Hughes in a Hurry to Lead City Revolution
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If, when he was first recruited to haul Blackburn Rovers away from the foot of the Premier League, you told Mark Hughes that four years later he would be unveiled at a training ground in Carrington as a manager with 50m to spend and Ronaldinho a possible...
'If Any Elements in My Room at the Royal Academy Shock, I'm Happy. I Want People to Start Feeling Art, Not Just Look at It'
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My Life In A ColumnToday I awoke, stretched out my arms and rejoiced in the fact that it is just an ordinary day. By that I mean I have to do everything that I usually have to do, like write this column, and a multitude of other tasks, but also that...
If I Feel like Having a Cigarette, Why Shouldn't I?
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I am going to start stockpiling cigarettes. I feel the need to have a small cache hidden around the house. I shall distribute them in out-of-the-way places in different rooms. I don't think it's appropriate to start putting them under the floorboards...
'I like to Stand Up and Be Counted on Really Tough Days'
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Some sportsmen pride themselves on their modesty, deferentially underplaying their achievements even when there is no one to question the brilliance of their performance, preferring to acknowledge standing ovations with bashful reluctance.Kevin Pietersen...
In a Different League
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Sports documentaries are no longer one-dimensional fan-fests. KALEEM AFTAB charts their move into the art-house arenaMaking sports documentaries was once looked upon as the cinematic equivalent of scoring own goals. They were traditionally the preserve...
'It's Only a Matter of Time before I'll Be Back.'
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Kieren Fallon is the greatest Flat jockey of his generation, but despite being cleared of race-fixing misses tomorrow's Derby because of a drugs suspension. In a rare and revealing interview he tells Chris McGrath about beating depression, racing again...
'I Won't Play the Game'
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Jena Malone is only 23 but is already a Hollywood maverick, passing up obvious roles in favour of darker tests. She tells LESLEY O'TOOLE whyIt is almost impossible to think of another young actress whose career closely emulates Jena Malone's. Now 23,...
James Bond the Jamaican
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Devil May Care By Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming PENGUIN Pounds 18.99 (295pp) Pounds 16.99 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 For Your Eyes Only By Ben Macintyre BLOOMSBURY Pounds 20 (224pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 For Your Eyes...
Januarie Dropped in Crackdown by New-Look South Africa
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*RUGBY UNIONPercy Montgomery and Victor Matfield, two of the outstanding performers in South Africa's defeat of England in the World Cup final, have been relegated to the bench for the Test against Wales in Bloemfontein tomorrow.In addition, scrum-half...
Johnny's Rotten, Says Woman Suing Him for 'Assault and Battery'
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He shot to fame as frontman of the Sex Pistols, whose debut hit "Anarchy In The UK" made them one of the most influential bands in rock history. But Johnny Rotten's latest brush with notoriety revolves around an alleged case of anarchy in a luxury hotel.The...
Johnson Matthey Shines with Metals Expertise
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THE INVESTMENT COLUMNOur view: BuyShare price: 1963p (-76p)This is something you won't hear too often: a non-oil company happy with the price of the black stuff, and even willing it up higher.Much of the specialty chemical and environmental technology...
Licence Hitch Could Derail Ince's Hopes
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Paul Ince's prospects of becoming the new Blackburn Rovers manager could be damaged by the former England captain's failure to complete his coaching qualifications.At Macclesfield Town, then Milton Keynes Dons, Ince has shown he has the potential to...
Mad about Our Boys
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A pack of talented, attractive young British actors are beating their American rivals to the plum roles. ALICE JONES reports on a new invasion of HollywoodIn a fortnight's time, 10,000 people will file into London's O2 arena for the UK premiere of Prince...
Mike Scott
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Host of 'The Time The Place'From working as a floor manager at Granada Television when it started broadcasting in 1956, Mike Scott scaled the heights to work as a director, producer and presenter, before becoming the company's programme controller. He...
Mourning in America as Ghosts Become Ancestors
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The Sorrows of an American By Siri Hustvedt SCEPTRE Pounds 16.99 (309pp) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while provide the sensuous delights of image and language....
Murdered Girl's Mother Blames Failure of Police
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The grief-stricken mother of the murdered schoolgirl Arsema Dawit launched a withering attack on police yesterday, blaming them for failing to protect her child.For days after her 15-year-old daughter was killed in a frenzied knife attack on Monday,...
My African Adventure
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When urban music star AKALA went to Bamako in Mali as part of Roots2Routes, to join rappers and artists from across the continent, he encountered poverty and helplessness - but also good times, friendship and hope. This is his storyA group of leading...
Needed: More Help for Heroes
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LEADING ARTICLE ARMED FORCESFour years ago, the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, found the funds to pay for hundreds of veterans of the D-Day landings in Normandy to attend the 60th anniversary of that extraordinary feat of Allied arms. This year their...
Newmarket Heath, with a Rubbing-Down House (C1765) George Stubbs Tate Britain, London
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GREAT WORKS"Pictures of nothing, and very like", was how the critic William Hazlitt characterised the work of Turner. He meant that Turner's painting was a meaningless blur, a field of lost focus, where "all is without form and void".There's another...
New Releases
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Coldplay Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends PARLOPHONE ***Coldplay's X&Y, they've since explained, was the final part of a trilogy - a claim some might consider a cunning defence against accusations that they're a one-trick pony mining a stadium-filling...
Northern Rock to Funnel Remortgage Business to Lloyds
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Northern Rock has signed a deal with Lloyds TSB, allowing its rival to cherry-pick its best fixed-rate customers so that the nationalised bank can shrink its mortgage book and repay the Bank of England's loan.Northern Rock will write to eligible customers...
NYSE Euronext Challenges Rivals with 30% Cut in Trading Fees
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The price war among the exchanges in Europe intensified yesterday as the transatlantic powerhouse NYSE Euronext slashed its fees to help repel competition from three rival markets preparing to launch this year.NYSE Euronext announced it was to cut fees...
Obama Heads for Virginia in Attempt to Storm Republican Stronghold
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Barack Obama headed to rural Virginia as part of a presidential election strategy aimed at loosening the Republican grip on southern strongholds.John McCain is expected to put up a fierce fight in the state which has a military tradition going back to...
Pandora
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Rugby man at a Derby dinner puts his hoof in itThe Epsom Derby dinner is usually one of the opening highlights of the summer "season" but guests at Wednesday night's bash were left distinctly unimpressed.The black tie, men-only event, which is hosted...
Paperbacks
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The Matchmaker of PerigordBy Julia StuartBLACK SWAN 7.99 (382pp)Amour-sur-Belle, the setting for Julia Stuart's comic debut novel, is an unlovely hamlet in north-west Dordogne - a place so ugly that even the English don't live there. Home to an ageing...
Paradise Lost: Climate Change Forces South Sea Islanders to Seek Sanctuary Abroad
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After years of fruitless appeals for decisive action on climate change, the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati has concluded that it is doomed. Yesterday its President, Anote Tong, used World Environment Day to request international help to evacuate...
Pietersen Rules the Farmyard as Chickens Are Put to Flight
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ENGLAND 273-7 V NEW ZEALANDKevin Pietersen is unlikely ever to win a popularity contest in Nottingham, the acrimonious way in which he left the county for Hampshire in 2004 put paid to that, but, as a batsman, he won the respect of the county's cricket...
PM Pledges to Do More for Serving Troops
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Gordon Brown said the Government would do "everything in our power" to improve conditions for the armed forces after General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the Army, compared the pay of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to that of traffic wardens.General...
Price Cuts Help Morrisons to Outshine Rivals
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Morrisons has delivered price cuts on 2,000 items this month to lure cash-strapped customers into stores, as it showed rivals a clean set of heels with barnstorming sales for the 13 weeks to 4 May.The UK's fourth-biggest supermarket has introduced the...
RBS Buoyed by 'Buy' Note and Rights Issue Hopes
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MARKET REPORTA "buy" note from Citigroup gave strength to Royal Bank of Scotland, which rose by almost 4 per cent yesterday.The bank was also buoyant on hopes of strong demand for its right issue offer, which is due to close today.Citi analyst Tom Rayner...
Sail Can Lead O'Brien Fleet to Oaks Victory
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So the old place has lost none of its magic, after all. For much of the spring, those who cherish Epsom watched aghast as Jim Bolger yawned indifferently at the idea of testing his best horses here. Whatever gestures he may or may not have had in mind,...
Secrets in the Indian File
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Louise Erdrich's acclaimed fiction remembers the drama and tragedy of the Native American past. Her latest novel, she tells JOHN FREEMAN, is about memory itselfOf all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha...
The Business of Mental Torture
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Theatre CONTRACTIONS Royal Court LONDON **** THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY Olivier, National Theatre LONDON ****It lasts only 45 minutes, but it's a tribute to the nagging intensity of Mike Bartlett's new play that, well before the halfway stage, I was desperate...
The Cheesy Secret Behind Successful Decision-Making
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It may look like an ordinary cheese sandwich - but it could contain the vital ingredient that helps you successfully negotiate that pay rise.Scientists have found that people with high levels of the brain chemical serotonin are more likely to succeed...
The Final Battle
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Help us make one last journey to the D-Day beaches in honour of the fallen, plead veteransA small group of old men will gather on the beaches of Normandy today - a handful of the 3,000 survivors of Britain's own "Band of Brothers". Many hundreds of...
The Immediate Experience Robert Warshow
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BOOK OF A LIFETIMEI love The Immediate Experience, a collection of writings by US critic Robert Warshow which looks at the significance of movies, comics and theatre in 1940s and 1950s America. I'm fairly sure I love it for the wrong reasons. The right...
The Story of Joan as Survivor
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Joan Wasser is Joan as Policewoman, and her late-blooming solo career marks her progress since her boyfriend Jeff Buckley's death. NICK HASTED hears how she is stopping herself screamingBounding up to ground level from the bunker-like hotel basement...
The Whole City Is a Gallery as Art Goes Al Fresco in York
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Yesterday was a strange day for staff at York Art Gallery. For much of the morning, concerned members of the public approached the front desk informing them that a priceless-looking painting had been hung on a wall in the city centre overnight. Did they...
The Women Behind a Wizard
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The Pain and the Privilege By Ffion Hague HARPER PRESS Pounds 25 (590pp) Pounds 22.50 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897History used to be about chaps. Now it is about the women behind the chaps. From Henry VIII's wives and Louis XIV's mistresses to Churchill's...
This Battle of the Balloons Has Gone beyond a Joke
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Miles Kington Remembered 12 JUNE 2002A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment, in which a Mrs Porter is suing a Mrs Treadwell for using balloons as a dangerous weapon. What happened, apparently, was that - but perhaps things...
Too Close to Home
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FILM OF THE WEEK Gone Baby Gone (15) Ben Affleck (114 mins) **** STARRING Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan, Michelle MonaghanVigils, rallies, flyers and posters in aid of a missing four- year-old girl. Pale, haunted relatives talking distractedly to TV cameras....
Trichet Hints at Rise in European Interest Rates Next Month
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In a sign of a more aggressive attitude by the world's central bankers to the threat of rising inflation, the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, suggested yesterday that the ECB would be prepared to raise interest rates as early...
TV Spot for Michelle as the Battle of the Wives Begins
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With her husband's campaign against John McCain now formally under way, Michele Obama fired the starting gun in the other great battle of every presidential race: the first wives' contest.The broadcaster ABC has announced that Mrs Obama will guest-host...
US Issues Threat to Iraq's $50Bn Foreign Reserves in Military Deal
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The US is holding hostage some $50bn (25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to information...
U. Utah Phillips
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Folk singer-songwriterU. Utah Phillips was a folk singer, songwriter and political activist, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical trade union movement popularly known as the Wobblies. Building on the legacy of Woody Guthrie, he...
Verizon-Vodafone Merger Would Solve Impasse between Sarin and Seidenberg
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OUTLOOKArun Sarin, the chief executive of Vodafone, is staying busy to the last. He's quitting as chief executive next month but that hasn't stopped him tying up the deal for Verizon Wireless, in which Vodafone owns a 45 per cent stake, to buy Alltel...
Victory in Battle of Belgrade Puts New World No 1 Ivanovic in Pink
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*TENNISYesterday she won the battle of Belgrade, tomorrow she will hope to conquer Paris and on Monday she will be on top of the world. The future is looking as bright for Ana Ivanovic as the salmon-pink dress in which she beat her fellow Serb, Jelena...
Vodafone Risks Shareholder Anger over Alltel Takeover
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Vodafone is risking further wrath from shareholders over the lack of dividend payments from its Verizon Wireless stake with yesterday's $28.1bn (14.4bn) takeover of Alltel, the US rural mobile company.The UK-listed group owns a 45 per cent stake in Verizon...
You Write the Reviews
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COSI FAN TUTTE Castleward Opera STRANGFORD LOUGH, COUNTY DOWN ****This is Tom Hawkes's eighth production of this opera in almost 40 years. He tells us that he has returned to it because he still finds something new to say, and Mozart never bores him....
