Entries for March 2008
its just a matter of when
from the BBC news website
A fireman has told how he escaped death in a paragliding accident only for a scan to reveal he had terminal cancer. Steve Phillips was a father-to-be when he fell 40ft after his paraglider collapsed at the White Horse in Osmington, Dorset, on 31 July. …
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if you think that I am a touch Bruce obsessed…
A woman snapped and stabbed her partner to death after he objected to her listening to Bruce Springsteen music, a court has been told.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane today heard Karen Lee Cooper, 50, used a long-bladed kitchen knife to stab 49-year-old Kevin Watson once in the chest because …
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on ‘redacted’
Brian De Palma has described his latest film ‘Redacted’ as ‘a fictional documentary’. It is a term which while seemingly oxymoronic also feels grimly appropriate since it is set in Iraq and depicts a war that many would argue was itself based on an untruth. ‘Redacted’ refers to the process …
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news you’re unlikely to see on the front page
(from BBC News website)
The number of fatal stabbings in London has dropped by 15%, figures have shown.
There were 68 knife murders carried out between April 2006 to January 2007, compared with 58 during the same period in 2007/8.
Overall knife crime was down by 15.7% with 10,200 offences …
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the kindness of strangers (Dutch TV version)
Dutch public broadcaster BNN deliberately misled viewers in a film clip about a woman in a burqa. The station’s youth channel showed a woman who dropped a bag of oranges being helped immediately by passers-by. Then the same woman, when wearing a burqa, was shown receiving no help. But rival …
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mumbai- Matthew D’Ancona’s Spectator diary
This is from the current issue of the Spectator. Its by Matthew D’Ancona, editor of the magazine and someone whom I met and had a great time with in Mumbai.
A city where the children dash from car to car selling novels is the perfect place for a literary festival: …
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