They found that the Rwandan government’s story hid a much darker truth. The Rwandans had a clear intention, right from the beginning: to seize Congo’s massive mineral wealth, to grab the coltan mine I am standing in now and thousands like it, and to sell it on to us, the waiting world, as we quickly [...]
I didn’t witness, at first hand, the destruction that was being wreaked. I didn’t see dead people, and I didn’t see people crawling through rubble. But we were in this terribly surreal position, that from around a swimming pool on a hill in Beirut, we watched – morning, afternoon and night – bombing runs and [...]
An independent committee was established, led by chairman Sir Dominic Cadbury, and talks were held with parties including private equity companies Permira and General Atlantic Partners and industry rivals Fiserv and SunGard.
But little progress was made and this month Misys revealed that although talks were continuing, it had yet to receive an acceptable offer. The [...]
Insiders claim Leicester would prefer if their captain demanded to go as it would make it easier for them to explain his departure.Leeds United and Chelsea have agreed deals for all their Uefa Cup home matches this season to be shown live on Sky Sports Extra, a channel available only on digital satellite. BSkyB, which [...]
It is far too long: any office worker would groan at a 10-pager, never mind a bunch of young men who earn their living with their hands.It is atrociously written. Nobody gets to be coach of a national team on the strength of their prose style, but if you are a man-manager with a penchant [...]
(This sequence may have been the one which bagged Grinberg the Best Actress prize at Berlin). Never having known such carnal rapture – uh-huh, right – Marie recruits Jeannot to be her pimp, and with bewildering rapidity (the film has an intricate time structure) he is transfomed into a smoothly besuited malcontent who passes his [...]
Bobby’s daughter, Courtney Kennedy, married Paul Hill of the Guildford Four just as he was about to be celebrated in the film In the Name of the Father. Her sister Kerry Kennedy Cuomo (she runs the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights which supports political activists around the world) married Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, [...]
Shoppers will be urged to buy British in support of UK farmers and to sign a petition calling on the Government to come up with a package of measures to alleviate the crisis. Scottish farmers yesterday agreed to suspend the blockades in protest against cheap beef imports and to concentrate on political lobbying. But the [...]
We believed this would allow Ruud more time to concentrate on the team and enable him to get involved in new areas like going out to watch potential players, assess up-coming opposition and spend more time working on technique and skills with individual players after the normal training sessions.”We have appreciated that Ruud has found [...]
I might have been Alexander Selkirk, cast ashore by Dampier; there was nothing but white sand, pounding waves, and the tufts of sea oats and scrub grasses.At the eastern end of the island I came to the St George Island State Park, which has a nature trail and two campsites. Then I drove back to [...]
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