Hints and tips:
...“A bit of Northern Soul,” he says, before moving inside....
...Spotlight, an account of the cover-up of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston, took place in a strip-lit newspaper office staffed by reporters in cheap shirts....
...Few locals buy tickets but think it’s good for Enniskillen all the same. If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...It is even more effective than the dazzling compound of local detail and wondrous self-confidence of that other Elizabethan enthusiast, the late AL Rowse....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...“You see the Catholics apologising for child abuse by priests and bishops, and the Pope has gone out of the way to apologise to the Americans. Then he goes to Australia and does the same....
...Barbie, Bratz et al is debatable....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...The Catholic bishops, initially concerned that the mosque’s minarets were higher than the spire of the neighbouring church, to their great credit, ultimately supported the building and it is currently under...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...● The 2008 election has inevitably been compared to that of 1960: a candidate from a minority – the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy – offers a message of hope and change....
...The Kabaka, king of the Buganda tribe (the current incumbent is a Cambridge law graduate) lives on Mengo hill. The Catholics have Rubaga hill....
...The British “garrison games” of rugby and soccer were banned. But on Sunday “Croker” will host its first rugby match: Ireland v France in the Six Nations championship....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...gift of magic green fingers....
...Ponting, Warne et al may have quietly recognised that they’re on to a loser and come round to thinking that it’s time again to start being nice....
...to terrorism, but the Ohio suburbs - well off the al-Qaeda radar - lapped up the strong-man stuff and delivered Bush a second term.)...
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