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On Monday city gents will tuck into their Ten Deadly Sins breakfast at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand

On Monday, city gents will tuck into their Ten Deadly Sins breakfast at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand. While they savour their coffee, steaming porridge, crisp Norfolk bacon, fried bread, calves’ liver, bubble and squeak, tomato, fried egg, black pudding, et al, others could be girding their loins...

And that according to Rusedski’s furious calculations cost him the tie and possibly

And that, according to Rusedski’s furious calculations, cost him the tie and possibly the tournament.After losing the first set and saving two set points at 3-5 down in the second, Rusedski finally had a break point and was jubilant after a Henman volley seemed to land long. But the ball was not...

That his remedial suggestion of selling off collections de-accessioning in the cringe-making curatorial demotic is presented as shockingly

That his remedial suggestion of selling off collections (“de-accessioning”, in the cringe-making curatorial demotic) is presented as shockingly radical is mere evidence that museums are – rather as you might expect – intensely conservative organisations.The heavy responsibility...

Whether she’s writing about the twin towers the daily horror of life in Sarajevo at

Whether she’s writing about the twin towers, the daily horror of life in Sarajevo at war, the fascinations of Fascist iconography, the pleasures of W G Sebald or Roland Barthes, she goes in for neither sentiment nor waffle nor the higher babble nor the juggling of postmodern ironies. Even if you...

I sound like Neil Kinnock but my father was the first

I sound like Neil Kinnock but my father was the first person in the family to go to university.”He still goes up to Scotland regularly to see his family and his beloved Celtic where he is a season ticket holder. He is trying to indoctrinate his two children to be Scotland supporters though with...

He grew up in a house full of women with two sisters and his Jewish mother Elizabeth Lucas who

He grew up in a house full of women, with two sisters and his Jewish mother, Elizabeth Lucas, who devoted her life to looking after her family, and filled the house with relatives and artistic friends of his father. His grandfather Sir John Noble was a director of Armstrong Whitworth, the armaments...

It ought to be allowed Professor Raven said at the AAAS meeting in Boston

It ought to be allowed,” Professor Raven said at the AAAS meeting in Boston.”I personally regret that the analogies between the two have led President Bush so far to conclude that the latter should be severely limited. I seriously hope that he will seriously modify his position,” the...

This is unlike any game yet seen on the PS2 and its challenges are such that you’ll be reluctant

This is unlike any game yet seen on the PS2, and its challenges are such that you’ll be reluctant to relinquish the controller.(Eidos)WipEout FusionPlayStation 2£39.99*****One of the greatest racing games ever has graduated to the PS2. For those sad sacks who’ve never heard of WipEout,...

Bodies were dug up and transported by freezer trucks into Serbia

Bodies were dug up and transported by freezer trucks into Serbia. At least one truck was dumped in the Danube river, hundreds of miles from Kosovo.Mr Milosevic refuses to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the court and has not appointed a defence counsel.. Israeli warplanes attacked bases of Yasser Arafat’s...

What is needed is an urgent brake on its activities until the cause of the

What is needed is an urgent brake on its activities until the cause of the problems can be identified and resolved,” Mr Clarke said.No one from Vitacress management was available for comment last week.The Independent was referred to Rick Sturdy, a landscape architect and agent for the company’s...

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