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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, 2002
ANALYSIS HOUSE PRICES: Waiting for a Downturn - but Will It Be a Bang or a Whimper? ; as Property Price Boom Shows Little Sign of Ending, Debate Rages on Whether Market Will Return to Long-Run Average Gently or with a Thud
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ONE PROPERTY surveyor in the normally sluggish North-east perfectly summed up the state of the housing market. "It's the strongest sales market since 1988 - too many buyers, too few houses," said Richard Sayer in Alnwick, Northumberland. The latest survey...
Anti-Semitism Row Damaging Germany, Says Schroder
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GOVERNMENT MPS and German Jews protested at the headquarters of the neo-liberal Free Democrats in Berlin yesterday in a dispute over remarks by the party's deputy leader seen as anti-Semitic. The Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, said the long-running dispute...
Arts: Pleasure Dome ; England Play Argentina Tomorrow at the Wondrously Hi-Tech Sapporo Dome in Japan. JAY MERRICK Says That Stadiums Used to Be Irrelevant to the Spectators but Now We Demand That Our Big Sporting Events Are Staged to Perfection
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Tomorrow, England will kick off against Argentina in the remarkable Sapporo Dome, whose hyper-modernity typifies the new wave of mass-entertainment architecture. Nothing physically unexpected can happen in the clasp of this vast, metal sherbet lemon...
ARTS: REVIEWS: CLASSICAL: The Orchestra Played on ; ST PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Royal Festival Hall London
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Diamonds, pearls, tails, stilettos, past and present government ministers, ambassadors, flunkies, and tickets costing up to pounds 200 all spells "unusual". Indeed this fund-raising event for the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra at the South Bank...
ARTS: REVIEWS: OPERA: LA TRAVIATA Alexandra Theatre Birmingham
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Pity the poor dame of the Camellias. A dose of antibiotics would have put all right; happily married, Violetta and Alfredo might have survived through the Dreyfus debacle and Debussy's Faune to toast Queen Victoria's jubilee. But then we would have been...
ARTS: REVIEWS: POP: ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM Mean Fiddler London
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It's not every day that you come across a rap group that cite Sun Ra and Sonic Youth as their influences. But Anti-Pop Consortium are hardly your average rap group. This Brooklyn outfit eschew the braggadocio of their hip-hop peers in favour of elaborate...
ARTS: REVIEWS: POP: These Boots Are Made for Stomping ; THE BREEDERS Astoria London
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Some time back in the early Nineties, before Britpop took over the world (well, this part of it anyway), and chicken tikka masala became the official national dish, the Breeders were a highly popular band on both sides of the Atlantic. Formed originally...
ARTS: REVIEWS: THEATRE: Laughter with an Italian Accent ; JOHAN PADAN AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Riverside Studios London
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It's not easy to be outspokenly left-wing in Italy, where fondness for fascism is more than nostalgic. Conversely, though, it's easy for a dissenter to win a reputation. Since others have won the Nobel prize for virtue or suffering rather than literary...
BOXING: Foul Invective Is Last-Ditch Attempt to Unnerve Lewis ; Tyson Stays Silent as Associates Send out a Stream of Abusive Propaganda against British World Champion in Build-Up to Big Fight
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SEVENTEEN YEARS ago the Reverend Jesse Jackson passed through Tunica, Mississippi, the casino boom town where Mike Tyson provided a fleeting glimpse of his preparation for the world heavyweight title challenge against Lennox Lewis here on Saturday. Jackson...
British Aid Worker Goes on Hunger Strike in Israeli Jail
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A BRITISH university research fellow was on hunger strike in an Israeli jail yesterday after being arrested while on a humanitarian mission. Josie Sandercock, 32, was among a group of International Solidarity Movement activists trying to act as a human...
Chess
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The 32nd annual tournament in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia Herzegovina, finished a week ago today in victory for Sergei Movsesian, after a crucial last round victory as Black against the joint leader going into the round, Alexei Shirov. This brought Movsesian...
Cinema: The Best Films
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Distance (NC, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 132mins) A group of "survivors" make a pilgrimage to a remote country reservoir, which had been poisoned three years earlier by a religious cult. Using naturalistic, hand-held camera footage and complex editing techniques,...
Clean-Up Leaves Only Memories of Jubilee Revels
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ALL THAT remained yesterday from the glittering jubilee celebrations were the memories - and the litter. Where, over the weekend, jubilant crowds had sung and sung again "Land of Hope and Glory" in The Mall, there was just rubbish to be collected. Across...
Colonel Who Called Bush `a Joke' Suspended
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AN AMERICAN Air Force colonel has been suspended and could face a court martial because he wrote to a newspaper describing President Bush as "sleazy and contemptible" and accusing the administration of ignoring advance warnings about the 11 September...
Come and Join Our Campaign to Save the Pound
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At first sight, Iain Duncan Smith's view that the Conservative leadership should not hog the limelight come the referendum on the euro looks like a strange call. We know that the overwhelming majority of Conservative activists are desperate to keep the...
COMMENT: What Buffy Teaches Us about US Education
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I have just completed my midweek indulgence of American TV. I watch a lot of US drama, including The West Wing on Sunday night when I hanker after the job of CJ Cregg, chief press officer at the White House. My mid-week viewing includes The Simpsons,...
CRICKET: Butcher's Run May Be Halted by Knee Injury
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MARK BUTCHER, the Surrey and England batsman, has been told he will require surgery to correct an injury to his left knee, aggravated during England's win over Sri Lanka in the second Test at Edgbaston. Butcher, England's most successful batsman since...
Dennis the Dealmaker Earns a New Nickname: The Artful Tax Dodger
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DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, the son of a New Jersey police captain, grew to be one of America's most feared and wealthy corporate titans. Deal- a-month Dennis, as Wall Street called him, built his company, Tyco, into a business colossus. Today he has a new nickname,...
Diana Has Been Written out of the Royal Fairy Story ; Unacknowledged She May Be, but She Still Preys on Their Minds. She's the Horror They Are All Running From
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So the Palace is pleased. As well it should be. The jubilee was a triumph. The republicans will be counting the cost for years to come. It wasn't just the royals who turned in perfect performances. We, the people, did our bit, too. Together we've written...
Diary
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Hank Roberts (left), the Brent teacher who has made teacher unity a personal crusade by joining all three unions, has won another small victory. He has been elected to the executive of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. Mr Roberts is already...
Doctors to Be Taught Battlefield Surgery in Inner-City Hospitals
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DOCTORS ARE to be trained in battlefield surgery to cope with the rising number of stabbing and gunshot victims in inner-city hospitals. Medical staff at two London hospitals will be taught the emergency surgery techniques on an intensive course until...
DoT's Secret E-Mail to `Dig Dirt' on Victim of Paddington
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SENIOR FIGURES at the Department of Transport sent a secret e- mail to uncover information on the Paddington rail crash survivor Pam Warren in what has been seen as an attempt to discredit her. Mrs Warren, who was badly burnt in the disaster and came...
Dunwoody Denies Prescott Claim She Put the Final Knife into Byers
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GWYNETH DUNWOODY has dismissed claims by John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, that she plunged "the final knife" into the former transport secretary Stephen Byers. Mrs Dunwoody, the chairwoman of the Commons Transport Select Committee, rejected...
Emap Could Spin off Radio Assets as Sector Consolidates
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EMAP, the media group, is believed to be considering spinning off its radio assets, which include Kiss FM, as a way of taking part in the sector consolidation kicked off by the new media ownership rules. The move would see the creation of a pure radio...
England Fans Held over `Forged Dollars'
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THREE ENGLISH football fans were arrested by Japanese police yesterday for allegedly using forged US dollars, the first arrests for serious crimes so far during the World Cup. According to a police spokesman in the northern city of Sapporo, where England...
Fashion & Style: Ghesquiere's Work Is, and Always Has Been, Historically Informed - Which Is Not the Same Thing as Plagiarism
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While Balenciaga continues to be the most desirable of designer labels, the man behind it is apparently less than happy. Why? Nicolas Ghesquiere has been accused of plagiarism, and is currently turning down interview requests left, right and centre....
Fashion & Style: Milla, Milla, on the Wall ; She Shot to Fame in the Fifth ...Lement, but in Real Life Milla Jovovich Is Also Stunning, Stylish and Intelligent. Perhaps That's Why She's Become Miuccia Prada's Muse. STEVE BEALE Joins Her Queue of Admirers
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Milla Jovovich purrs: "You know, you can buy a great place like this here in LA for about the same price as a one-bedroom flat in Brixton?" She's reclining elegantly on a couch in a room decorated only by heavenly shards of California sunshine. "The...
Fashion & Style: `Sipping Very Cold Champagne on a Fast Jet Is Not Exactly Hard Labour'
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To Monaco, then, with Jerry Hall, by helicopter, Lear Jet and helicopter again, to celebrate the launch of five top-end watches from Tag Heuer. There I was, with one of the world's most glamorous women, sipping vintage Dom Perignon as we cruised over...
Fear and Loathing at the World Cup ; We Know All about Maradona's Hand, and Beckham's Foot, and Even Simeone's Toe, but the Resentment between England and Argentina Stretches Back Much Further Than That. Justin Webster Reports
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For a people who like to think of themselves as tolerant and good- natured, the English are remarkably good at collecting old enemies. The Germans, the French, the Scots, the Welsh: ancient mutual hatred colours relationships with all of them, and any...
First Night: Delightful Pyjama Game Works like a Dream ; A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's Globe, London
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ANDY WARHOL once shot an utterly static five-hour movie of a man sleeping. The result is enough to make you drop off, but it does bring home how this state is somewhat under-represented in drama. A Midsummer Night's Dream, though, is as drenched in sleep...
FOOTBALL: British Firm Sacked in World Cup Ticket Row ; the Game's Governing Body Accepts Demand for Action over Unsold Seats While Researchers Highlight Use of Painkillers in Sport
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FIFA SUFFERED a further humiliation yesterday when the World Cup's Korean organisers announced they were taking over the sale of most tickets from football's world governing body and the British company responsible for printing them. The South Korean...
Football: World Cup 2002: Argentina Raise Question of Morality for Eriksson's Men
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SINCE THE days of samurai and shogunates, Japanese society has lived by a series of moral codes. Often incomprehensible to outsiders, and sometimes taken to unacceptable extremes, they still influence everyday life. In football, the need to show respect...
Football: World Cup 2002: Beckham Apologises for Snub to Fans
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SORRY MAY be the hardest word; but not, it appeared, for David Beckham yesterday, when contrition rather than retribution was on the mind of the England captain. Though tomorrow's climactic meeting with Argentina was the principal focus of attention...
Football: World Cup 2002: Complete Guide to the World Cup
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TODAY'S MATCHES GROUP A: Denmark v Senegal Taegu. Kick-off: 7.30am (BBC1) Last Meeting: 1977: Friendly: Senegal 2 Denmark 3. Head-to-head: Played 1. Denmark 1, Senegal 0, Draws 0. DENMARK 1 Thomas Sorensen Sunderland 2 Stig Tofting Bolton Wanderers 3...
Football World Cup 2002: Irish Provide Fitting Party for Staunton's Milestone
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THE CRAZY green bandwagon rolls on. To Yokohama next and a fitting extension of this increasingly impossible tale. Surely the Irish cannot stumble at the final hurdle, not now, not after the emotional expenditure of the past two weeks. The Irish have...
Football: World Cup 2002: Keane Delivers Sweet Justice for Irish ; Germany 1 Klose 19 Republic of Ireland 1 Keane 90: WORLD CUP Striker's Injury-Time Goal Earns Deserved Draw with Germany to Put McCarthy's Men in Sight of Place in Knockout Stages
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FOR THE second time in five days the Republic of Ireland chiselled a draw out of an unpromising rock of a match and celebrated it, on the pitch and in the stands, like a victory. Amid the bedlam of the dressing room - and Germany's must have seemed like...
FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP 2002: O'Brien Leads Reawakening of American Dream ; United States 3 O'Brien 4, Jorge Costa Og 30, McBride 36 Portugal 2 Beto 39, Agoos Og 71; Group D Favourites Portugal Pay for Complacency and Shambolic Defending While Russia Scrape Unconvincing Win over Group H Outsiders
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UNDERESTIMATE THE Americans at your peril. Portugal did here last night in this southern suburb of the capital, woke up to the fact too late that their opponents were worthy of some respect and became victims of one of the great World Cup upsets. As...
Football World Cup 2002: Pressure Growing as France Wait for Zidane
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SIRENS WILL sound for a minute here today as part of South Korea's day of remembrance for its war dead. Efforts have been made to inform World Cup visitors in case they fear that the screeching signals an air raid, though they could be forgiven for assuming...
Football: World Cup 2002: Rivaldo Defiant despite Fine for `Cunning' Dive
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RIVALDO WAS in unrepentant mood after Fifa's disciplinary committee fined him pounds 4,500 with pounds 680 costs for feigning injury during Brazil's 2- 1 win over Turkey. Rivaldo clutched his face and went down in apparent agony after Turkey's Hakan...
Football: World Cup 2002: The Latest Chapter in England's Battle with Unjustly Accused
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A COUPLE of days before England and Argentina met at the quarter- final stage of the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico, it could be concluded that tactical and technical matters would matter less than the outcome of a tussle between Diego Maradona and...
Football: World Cup 2002: Tournament Schedule
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FIRST ROUND All times BST GROUP A 31 May France 0 Senegal 1 Seoul 1 June Uruguay 1 Denmark 2 Ulsan Today Denmark v Senegal (7.30, BBC1) Taegu Today France v Uruguay (12.30, BBC1) Pusan 11 June Denmark v France (7.30, ITV1) Inchon 11 June Senegal v Uruguay...
Football: World Cup 2002: Tournament Statistics
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Goalscorers 4 - Miroslav Klose (Germany) 2 - Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark), Christian Vieri (Italy) 1 - Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina), Marc Wilmots (Belgium), Peter Van der Heyden (Belgium), Ronaldo (Brazil), Rivaldo (Brazil), Patrick Mboma (Cameroon),...
FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP 2002: Tunisians Rattled by Skills of Sychev ; Russia 2 Titov 59, Karpin Pen 64 Tunisia 0
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BEING PART of Uefa, Russia are regarded as a European team. Yet, such is the vast spread of the Steppes, they are one of the closest nations to Japan geographically. There were a surprising number of Russian supporters at the Kobe Wing Stadium yesterday,...
FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP 2002: US Celebrates with Wave of Apathy
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COULD THIS finally be the start of something big? The tiny and, thus far, utterly ignored minority of Americans who follow the national football (sorry `soccer') team is just daring to think so, after the USA's massive upset defeat of Portugal. To find...
Football: World Cup 2002: Who, What, Where
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Player of the day Alvaro Recoba (Uruguay) A DEAD-BALL specialist with a lethal left foot, the 26-year-old Internazionale midfielder is likely to start in a creative berth behind a front two today against the holders France. A stunning strike rate in...
Football: World Cup 2002: World Cup in Brief: Lauren Warns of Saudi Backlash
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Lauren has emulated Roy Keane and severely criticised his side's World Cup preparations. Arsenal's Cameroonian international believes the travel chaos that delayed the Indomitable Lions' arrival in Japan by five days has hampered their chances. "The...
Further Education: Why the Lecturers Are in Revolt ; the Pay of Lecturers in Further Education Has Fallen Behind That of Teachers in Schools. Yet the Two Groups Teach the Same Students. No Wonder the Lecturers' Union Has Voted to Take Industrial Action. NEIL MERRICK Reports
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Further education colleges and schools have become much better acquainted during the past few years. Among those to benefit are thousands of 14- to 16-year-olds - many of them disaffected with education - who attend colleges only for a few hours each...
Future Shock ; Philip K Dick's Writing Was the Basis for Blade Runner and Now Minority Report, Starring Tom Cruise. but, Asks CHARLES ARTHUR, Is the World He Predicted Closer Than We Think?
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Imagine a world where crime doesn't happen, because it gets predicted ahead of time, and stopped first. That's the world depicted in the new film Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as the justifiably rather smug chief of police in that world, where...
Galapagos Oil Spill Killed Two-Thirds of Island's Iguanas
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AN OIL tanker spill last year killed off nearly two-thirds of the iguana population on one of the Galapagos islands, scientists have revealed. The spill did not affect most of the exotic species on Santa Fe, but within a year of the accident, 62 per...
Golf: Rose Is Ready to Make the Most of Growing Stature
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AS A rule of thumb, the standing of a golfer can be gauged by the company he keeps, particularly in a pro-am. Yesterday Justin Rose had a hint of his growing stature when he found himself partnered with Ian Botham, Beefy's son Liam and the even beefier...
Golf: South African Stands in Way of Scotland's Streak
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THE PRODUCTION line that is English junior golf, amply rewarded by Justin Rose's victory in the British Masters last Sunday, shows no sign of slowing down. Rose, 21, is already England's highest placed golfer on the world rankings and heads an exciting...
Government Scheme to Hire `Mentors' to Help Schoolchildren May Damage Their Exam Results
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ADULT "MENTORS" intended to motivate disaffected pupils may damage their exam results, according to research. Mentors are a key part of the Government's plans to improve the performance of children who struggle at school, particularly in inner cities....
Graduate Careers: MY FIRST WEEK - Elizabeth Downey Manager of the Education Department at London Aquarium
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Qualifications: Graduated from University College London with a 2:1 in zoology Age: 25 Mission: To manage the education department at the London Aquarium at County Hall, London SE1 MONDAY I arrive at 9am. The general manager takes me downstairs to the...
Headteachers Demand Pounds 15bn a Year of Extra Spending to Prevent Staff Cuts
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HEADTEACHERS have demanded a government cash injection for schools of up to pounds 15bn a year to preserve thousands of teachers' jobs. A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) revealed that seven out of 10 school budgets had failed...
Higher Education: Great Expectations ; MICHAEL DUNNING Asks, Why Is Job Dissatisfaction So High among Graduates?
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After spending three or four years with your head buried in books and living just above the poverty line, an exciting, well-paid career should be the light at the end of the tunnel. But is it? According to research conducted at the University of Warwick,...
Higher Education: Lessons from Abroad ; If Tony Blair Wants More Young People to Go to University, He Should Look to France and the US, Says LUCY HODGES
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How do we persuade more young people to stay on in education and training after the age of 16? That's the big question currently facing ministers. Tony Blair has committed the Government to getting one half of the country's under-30s into higher education...
High Street Giants Unite Loyalty Cards
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SHOPPERS WILL be able to amass loyalty-card points at four of the UK's biggest high street names under a new customer reward initiative to be launched this autumn by the founder of Air Miles. The joint loyalty programme, which will initially be offered...
Independent Group Cautiously Optimistic for This Year
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SIR ANTHONY O'REILLY, executive chairman of Independent News & Media, said he was cautiously optimistic that the performance of the group, which owns The Independent and The Independent on Sunday, would be ahead of last year. Speaking at the company's...
India Offers Pakistan a Face-Saving Way Forward
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IT WAS nicely timed. Two days of ritualistic denunciations and stony stares had given Kazakhstan's first shot at a regional security conference a doomed look. Then, on the final morning - after studiously avoiding even a handshake with Pakistan's President,...
Insurers Offer Pounds 315m over Endowment Mortgages
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THOUSANDS OF consumers with underperforming endowment mortgages will receive compensation worth pounds 315m in total under a scheme to force insurance companies to boost people's policies when they have been treated unfairly. The Financial Services Authority...
KPMG Sells Remaining Consulting Operations to Atos Origin for Pounds 423m
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KPMG ATTEMPTED to address worries about accountancy firms owning lucrative consulting businesses yesterday by selling its remaining consulting operations to the Dutch company Atos Origin for EUR657m (pounds 423m). The firm has been trying to sell the...
LAST NIGHT'S TELEVISION ; the Motivators BBC2
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"SAS. Finance. Are there any similarities?" Howard Broadbent, senior manager in a home loan company, was looking for the answer "yes", and it didn't take him long to get it. "It's amazing, the links!" he went on. "They're specialists in their own field...
Leading Article: Mr Duncan Smith's Tactics on the Euro Are Harming His Party and His Cause
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WHATEVER THE contortions used by some senior Tories to disavow it, yesterday's pledge by Iain Duncan Smith's director of strategy, Dominic Cummings, that the Conservative Party will take a back seat in any euro referendum remains a sensationally illuminating...
Leading Article: Testing Times for Dr Boston
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The appointment of Dr Ken Boston to the job of chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has surprised the education world. Dr Boston, 59, has a reputation in Australia as director general of education and training in New South Wales,...
Leading Article: The Ominous Return of Voter Apathy in France
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WHAT A sad difference six weeks have made. After their unexpected first-round ejection in the presidential election, the French left wrote off the Elysee, brought their considerable forces on to the streets and promised an energetic and principled campaign...
Letter: Fixing the `Leaky Pipe'
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The plight of women in higher education is indisputable ("What women really want", EDUCATION, 30 May). In terms of pay, equal pay audits are a good first step to address the pay gap. A pay audit analyses employees' pay and benefits, factoring in what...
Letter: Football Heals National Differences
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Sir: Whilst there has been much written about Japan in this World Cup, there has been considerably less written about South Korea, the co- host country. Of course, I realise that with the England team staying and playing in Japan, it is no wonder that...
Letter: Why Lawyers Deserve Everything They Receive
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Sir: The remarks of Lord Phillips, Master of the Rolls, (report, 3 June) concerning lawyers fees, made me wonder whether the day of the "national street party" was a good day to publish what that he wished to bury! As a past President/ National Chairman...
Longer Lives in Rich Nations `Increases Incidence of Cancer'
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EUROPE'S RICHEST countries have high rates of cancer because they have a large proportion of elderly people and can help victims of the disease live longer, a survey published today says. The biggest study of the prevalence of cancer in Europe shows...
Market Movers
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AIT RALLIES AFTER SHOCK + NASDAQ DROP HITS ARM + CAPE HIGHER ON BANK SUPPORT + TIBCO NEWS UNSETTLES SAGE bAIT Group 112.5p (up 16p, 16.6 per cent). Rally following Friday's shock profits warning. Cape 22.5p (up 2p, 9.8 per cent). Boasts the support of...
MARKET REPORT: Reuters Dragged Down by Profit Warning at US Software Unit
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IT WAS generally a bad day for equities yesterday, and for a good few traders who were back at their desks nursing hangovers from the weekend's World Cup and jubilee festivities. It was a particularly nasty day for information provider Reuters, which...
Media Fail to Get the Picture as T-Mobile Suffers Communication Breakdown
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"IT WAS working an hour before," said the red-faced spokesman. And it worked just fine shortly after the demonstration ended, he insisted. But during the actual demonstration, aimed at impressing the amassed media, T-Mobile's mobile phone picture messaging...
M&S Adds View from Sportwear to Its Line Up
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MARKS AND Spencer yesterday snapped up the View From performance sportswear brand from Nova International, a private sports marketing company run by the former Olympic athlete Brendan Foster, in a deal believed to be worth about pounds 2m. In a move...
New York Gays Are Told to Beware of Suspect in Headless Murder Inquiry
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THE GAY community of New York City has been served notice by the police department that Richard Markham, the man suspected of murdering and dismembering his homosexual lover in Basingstoke last week, has flown to the city from Heathrow and may be in...
Obituary: Fernando Belande Terry ; Twice President of Peru
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FERNANDO BELAUNDE TERRY was one of the founding figures of modern Peruvian politics, and was twice elected president of the republic. He trained as an architect, and the party he created, Accin Popular (AP), gave an independent political voice for the...
Obituary: John Thomas ; Beat Poet Known for His Inability to Write
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"HOW DOES one review the work of a poet who mocks the societal role of the poet, who has no desire to publish his poetry and says that he has no interest in the familiar moral values of poetry and poets?" This was the question posed by Lawrence Lipton,...
Obituary: Mamo Wolde ; Ethiopian Marathon Runner Victorious at the 1968 Olympics
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MAMO WOLDE was in the vanguard of the present African domination of long-distance running events. In Mexico City in 1968, Wolde became the second Olympic gold medallist in Ethiopia's history, taking the marathon title and so succeeding his more celebrated...
Obituary: Ott Orban ; Versatile Hungarian Poet Rare in Reaching English Audiences
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GREAT VERSATILITY and poly-stylistic excellence were the trademarks of the Hungarian poet Ott Orban. He is one of the few poets of his generation whose work became relatively well known in English-speaking countries. This has happened partly in recognition...
OUTLOOK: Interest Rates
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THE HOUSING market has a mesmerising effect on the British public and media. May's record-breaking monthly increase of 4.2 per cent has set alarm bells ringing over the likelihood of a hike in interest rates from the Bank of England later today. Certainly...
OUTLOOK: Tyco's Kozlowski Finds Himself Painted into a Corner
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AFTER THE Enron affair, corporate America needed another scandal like a hole in the head. But just six months later and along comes Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski and the curious case of the unpaid taxes. This one may lack the scale of Enron, which engulfed...
Pandora
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A confederacy of pointy-heads Peter Mandelson may not have made it back into the cabinet yet, but the think-tank he chairs, the Policy Network, is living up to his description of it as "part of the alternative to government". So influential has it become...
People Who Don't like Sport Are Wrong
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If you're not at all interested in the World Cup you are objectively mathematically scientifically wrong. For years I've justified my interest in sport defensively. The low point came during a tense finish to a Test match between England and Zimbabwe,...
Poker
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Tournament poker players are all too ready to do deals at the end of competitions that involve chopping up the prize money for the first two or three places instead of playing to a conclusion. One reason is the big differentials between the prize- money...
Racing: Tholjanah Takes the Eye as Rain Slips in New Factor
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THE RAIN poured on Epsom yesterday and the money flowed for one of the outsiders in the 223rd running of the Derby. It was likely to have been a trickle of cash rather than a torrent though as the horse in question was Tholjanah and it does not take...
Rate Pressure Eases as Retail and Industry Suffer Slowdown
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RETAIL AND industrial lobby groups united yesterday to call on the Bank of England to ignore the feverish housing market and leave interest rates on hold later today. Figures out yesterday showed that manufacturing, engineering and retail sales all suffered...
Rise of Global Eco-Tourism May Be Putting Wildlife in Danger
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ECO-TOURISM MIGHT be endangering wildlife, scientists warn today. Among those at risk are mongooses and meerkats in Africa and penguins in Antarctica, areas where environmental tourism is on the increase. Scientists in Chobe National Park, Botswana,...
Rugby Union: Agen Appeal against European Ban Fails
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THE FRENCH title challengers, Agen, who had the brass neck to mount a double appeal against their suspension from European rugby following a game-throwing scandal, will definitely be prevented from competing in next season's Heineken Cup. The board of...
Schools: A-Z of A-Levels: Law ; OUR WEEKLY SERIES DESIGNED TO HELP YOU PICK THE RIGHT COURSE
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WHAT IS IT? The study of the legal system. If that sounds dull, you're mistaken. By doing the course you'll get the inside story on a host of high-profile cases from the Sarah Payne trial to Diane Pretty's battle for the right to end her life. At AS...
Schools: Seriously Young Blood ; Education Gets a Dose of Youthful Radicalism in the Form of the New Schools Minister, David Miliband. but He May Be Too Close to No 10 for Teachers' Comfort, Writes RICHARD GARNER
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The education world is thrilled by the dazzling appointment of the young Blairite MP David Miliband, 36, to be schools minister. His is a meteoric rise to power - from humble backbench MP directly to minister, within just under a year of being elected...
Schools: Teacher Talk
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GRAHAM SMITH is headteacher at Tunbridge Wells High School in Kent How well do you think the exam boards performing? I respect exam boards because I used to work for a couple, and a great deal of very good work is done. But systems must be in place to...
Socialists Fear Apathy Will Give le Pen New Chance
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THE SOUND system at the Socialist rally belted out the political anthem of the Toulouse rock group Zebda: Nous sommes tous motives. (We are all motivated). But are they? Is the French left, and the French electorate as a whole, still motive going into...
Suicide Bomber Kills 16 on Bus Packed with Soldiers ; MIDDLE EAST Palestinian Attack Provokes New Assault on Jenin by Israeli Tanks and Helicopters, as Briton Protests at `Illegal Detention'
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AN ISRAELI bus packed with young soldiers was turned into a fireball when it was blown up yesterday by a Palestinian suicide bomber driving a stolen pick-up van laden with explosives, killing at least 16 people. Bus 830 was making its way through Israel's...
Syndicate Claim as Black `Pop Idol' Is Ejected
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THE EJECTION of two talented singers this week from the South African version of ITV's Pop Idol has raised suspicions that the vote has deliberately been skewed. Yesterday, an official at Vodacom, the mobile phone company that makes millions of rands...
Tales out of School Strange Stories from the Global Classroom
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Low expectations A new history test for pupils in Palm Beach County, Florida, is causing a stir. It's on American and world history, and covers women, Africans, African-Americans and the Holocaust. It's not the questions, however, that are attracting...
Teacher Recruitment: From Kitchen to Classroom ; in the West Midlands, Schools Are Finding Novel Solutions to Teaching Shortages. Headteachers Are Encouraging Lunch-Time Supervisors and Teaching Assistants to Train as Teachers. NICHOLAS PYKE Reports
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No one has yet completed the long journey from wiping noses at dinner time to running a school, but hundreds of support staff in towns such as Walsall and Wolverhampton have al-ready taken the first steps on the way. Headteachers in the West Midlands...
Tennis: Sampras Will Miss Queen's to Raise Game
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DESPERATE TO lift his game and his spirits, Pete Sampras has decided to forego the wild card reserved for him at the Stella Artois Championships at Queen's Club, London, next week and will instead prepare for Wimbledon at the Gerry Weber Open on the...
THE HIGH PRICE OF FAME ; `Does the Press Sense That There Is No More to Be Got out of Being Nice to Someone Famous, and Take Revenge by Ignoring Them?'
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Sometimes people are in the public eye for years, and then suddenly they vanish. Do they get tired of fame? Does the public get tired of them? Does the press sense that there is no more to be got out of being nice to someone and decide on the ultimate...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Fluctuating Oil Price Won't Help John Wood
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ALL THE major oil companies have set out ambitious targets to boost production, but all of them need to keep the costs of their expansion as tight as possible. Enter the oil services companies - such as John Wood Group - to whom the majors are increasingly...
The Political Classes Must Reflect on This Demonstration of People Power
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Power to the people. That must surely be the message of this week's jubilating by the masses in central London. When there were wrangles, at the beginning of this year, between the Home Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport over who should...
THE THURSDAY BOOK: Bloodshed, Ratings and the President's Golf Game ; War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals David Halberstam Bloomsbury, Pounds 20
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FOR ALMOST half a century, from 1945 to 1990, foreign policy consumed two-thirds of the time of every American President. Most was devoted to the heavyweight business of keeping Soviet tanks off our lawns. It was a bipolar world, and the wars the US...
