Often maverick and outspoken, they are the first names that spring to mind when talking about business. THE former defence minister Alan Clark came under fierce attack from politicians and historians last night after calling into question the wartime record of Sir Winston Churchill, writes Stephen Castle. If we knew more about how the brain really works, we might better understand why science and common sense are incompatible.Easily readable and generally well argued, this is one of the best accounts by a scientist of what science is really about. He went to Australia with the World Cup squad in 1987 but did not play and it was not until the following year that he won his first cap. If they could deal in secret they might be more prepared not just to put more money into the market but to take more risks. Even the cautious Prudential is building 50,000 sq ft of offices in Berkeley Square.Elliott Bernerd’s Chelsfield, which recently floated on the stock market, is dusting off plans for a 115,000 sq ft office scheme at Wool House, a prime location close to the Mall. He had six birdies yesterday and could have expected a seventh at the par-five 17th but instead got a six.
143 (475 min, 319 balls, 20 fours) M R Ramprakash c Chanderpaul b Walsh .3 (20 min, 12 balls) R A Smith lbw b K C G Benjamin. Everyone copes with its ravages in their own way, but few have done so as gracefully as Sir John Gielgud. The most obvious is that Mr Papandreou’s Pasok party faces imminent local elections in northern Greece. Kicking and screaming, Estonia has already passed the necessary legislation, and Latvia is likely to follow suit this year.Yet the claims of human rights violations persist – as shown by Mr Kozyrev’s Newsweek interview. It re-emphasises the benefits of single, all-purpose unitary authorities and asks the commission to give more weight to local consensus.The crucial sentence sealing the fate of the county councils, said the minister, is on the fourth page: ‘Unitary authorities covering either a very large area or a very small population will need a specially strong justification, because of concerns in the former case about remoteness and in the latter about the effectiveness of service delivery.’While acknowledging that it was technically possible for a council as large as a county to exist, the minister said that he did not envisage the required ’specially strong justification’ being strong enough.
‘There’ll be plenty more where that came from.”I wouldn’t be at all surprised,’ said my wife. They had been out of office so long, the only decision they could take was that they wanted someone else to take the decisions for Britain.Mr Major said the Conservatives were the only mainstream party not prepared to move towards a centralised Europe. Sri Lanka 331 and 300 for 6 dec
South Africa 267 and 25-2
ARJUNA RANATUNGA, the Sri Lankan captain, scored a magnificent 131 to put his team in a commanding position in their first Test match against South Africa in Morotuwa yesterday.Ranatunga, whose main support came from the former captain, Aravinda de Silva, in a fifth-wicket stand of 121 in 103 minutes, shrugged off an injury and a disputed decision to propel Sri Lanka to 300 for 6 in their second innings before they declared shortly after tea.De Silva had cut and hooked the South African fast bowlers with dismissive ease as he completed his 10th Test half-century before being caught by David Richardson off Pat Symcox on 68. The women tutted at the number of people who are sick or disabled. The outbreak of a price war among the tabloids, started by the Sun’s 5p cut to 20p last week, has already made the imposition of VAT easier.
On Friday, Mr Clarke said: ‘I have always thought it anomalous to have such a narrow VAT base in this country and have frequently said so.’Most newspaper executives are becoming resigned to the imposition of VAT and are working out how to deal with it. The falling-off in the Arab and American markets is partly to blame.
Adult men are most at risk of being murdered; the elderly and teenagers are least likely to be killed. Before the Second World War, the Maharaja of Baroda was quoted as saying: ‘Cricket is a game invented by the British who, not being a spiritual people, had to have some concept of eternity.’(Photograph omitted). And if the Academy’s stodgy acoustics ensure a sound that is not what you would call crisp, well, crispness was never really what the Ramones were about.Their latest album, Mondo Bizarro (Chrysalis), is actually their best in some time, but they don’t do much from it beyond a rather puzzling version of the Doors’ ‘Take it as it Comes’. AFTER nearly 10 years in Ethiopian prisons, one victim of political tyranny has found a new life in a villa on the English Riviera. Too much is unknown about how the new Commonwealth of Independent States is developing. DOUGLAS COUPLAND’s first book, Generation X, was about three friends in their late twenties who had become disaffected with the meaninglessness of life in modern America and had moved to the Californian desert, where they worked at ‘McJobs’ (the ‘low pay, low prestige, low benefits, low future’ alternatives to their scorned yuppy destinies) and sought to combat anomie by telling each other stories. One recent poll suggested 70 per cent of east Germans believe things are getting better; only one in five disagree.Especially in an election year, observations about change in east Germany tend to be categorised along party political lines.
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Yorkshire win by 114 runsYORKSHIRE have waited a long time for their first Championship win of the season and they have not been short of reminders about it. Pubs and leisure will absorb pounds 10m each, drinks wholesaling pounds 8m and health care pounds 5m. This book does essentially the same thing, but is no less invaluable for that. What it has taught us is that prison should be an opportunity to show people another side of themselves, that crime doesn’t have to be a way of life.’As we stood waiting to be released, Ed struck up conversation with one of the cast. But according to specialist advisers on the rights of home-owners living in sheltered housing estates, Guardian is probably acting reasonably.Service charges were at the centre of some bitter disputes between property managers and elderly residents of sheltered housing estates in the late Eighties.
