The only way they can have their name appear twice is to win a medal. Two weeks ago, it called on its banks to provide an estimated DM2bn to cover cash payments on oil futures contracts in New York.The supervisory board decided it had not been properly informed by management of the problems. The awards, [...]

Last year I, too, had a compost heap on to which I religiously put only vegetable waste, fruit trimmings, grass cuttings etc. But, as no other perspective is conceded even by implication, one is forced to conclude that this is a character we’re asked not only to believe in, but to believe.All the facts are [...]

I give 100 per cent – and no more, because that would be impossible.’ No, not even Neil Back, rugby’s perpetual-motion man, can fulfil the sporting cliche by giving 110 per cent.(Photograph omitted). And the Japanese are set for a major onslaught on EC markets. Again, turning the Press Complaints Commission into a statutory tribunal, [...]

And now, surveying the steady elaboration of counterpoint in the so-called Ars Antiqua of the 12th and 13th centuries centring on Perotin, and then the rhythm revolution and manifestos of the Ars Nova of Vitry and Machaut in the 14th, Page wants to argue this: ‘The period of 1100-1600 in the musical life of the [...]

In Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday Mr Clinton got a nasty shock when, a few minutes into a meeting about crime and health, a local woman said his credibility had been undermined by Whitewater. They may say grace to themselves in the school cafeteria, but anything more than that is forbidden.
If this were some sudden [...]

‘Though we are a national chain we have more stores in the North-west than anywhere else, so a team up here made sense.’He says his business couldn’t afford Manchester United or Liverpool and felt that sponsoring one of the big clubs might alienate supporters of some of the others But nice little Oldham. He became [...]