Hugh McIlvanney: FA must remove blinkers
The News Review:
- Hugh McIlvanney: FA must remove blinkers
- The tsars come out to play
- OSU linebackers tough act to follow: 63,649 watch spring competition…
- Oh, for a bite of Lucea yam
- Publisher finds success with business magazine
- Hardliner Shi’ite Maliki to head up new government of Iraq
Hugh McIlvanney: FA must remove blinkers
Times Online - Apr 23, 2006
Well, his Arsenal teams have been notably un-English of late, but that wouldn’t diminish the probability of landslide approval if, miraculously, he volunteered to succeed Eriksson. Wenger would certainly deserve to be thus received on the grounds of richly proven ability and passionate commitment to excellence, which should be the required credentials, regardless of nationality. Instead, in zealous efforts to make a case for home-grown candidates, a monstrously irrational significance has been attached to the month-by-month performances of their clubs. Stuart Pearce was hailed as a frontrunner while Manchester City were achieving decent results but the clamour soon faded as City’s form plummeted like a curling stone down a deep well. Then it was McClaren’s turn to be lauded for the wrong reasons. If people prize the experience he has accumulated as Sir Alex Ferguson’s right-hand man at Manchester United and in the service of England, if they think it outweighs the general ordinariness of what he has done at Middlesbrough and is more relevant than a distinctly unelectric personality, that is fair enough.
The tsars come out to play
Times Online - Apr 23, 2006
She laughs at the suggestionthat her preparations sound like planning the small annexation of a minorneighbouring republic. But when you come from a country where the highlight of the year used to bewaving a flag in Red Square as armoured tanks and rocket-propelled grenadelaunchers trundled across the cobbles on May Day, getting the season rightis a serious matter. Snobbish types, she says, have long grumbled that home-grown riffraff, withtheir penchant for Tia Maria-and-coke, and nouveaux riches from abroad havetaken the sparkle out of the season. But astute observers acknowledge thatit was on the verge of extinction before foreign interest injected it withnew life – and money. Lady Celestria Noel, the daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough, former editorof Jennifer’s Diary in Harper’s & Queen and author ofDebrett’s Guide to the Season, believes this decline in interest at home ispartly to do with embarrassment. “With their emphasis on everything casual,the British now hate the idea of dressing up for events like this,” shesays. “But foreigners love it.
OSU linebackers tough act to follow: 63,649 watch spring competition…
Free with registration - Blade - AccessMyLibrary.com - Apr 23, 2006
Hawk, Bobby Carpenter and Anthony Schlegel. Hawk and Carpenter were home-grown All-Americans now headed for the NFL, while Schlegel was a gritty fifth-year senior who had started his career at Air Force. “You don’t try and fill the shoes of players like that, or think that you are looking for someone to replace them,” OSU linebackers coach.
Oh, for a bite of Lucea yam
Jamaica Observer - Apr 23, 2006
says minisett technology to be used to revive the yam breed
Member of Parliament Ralston Anson (PNP-Western Hanover), a son of the soil who, it appears, prefers home-grown food produce to the imported variety, raised a concern about the supply of Lucea yam on Thursday while the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives was examining budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land. Anson said that with the proposed new hotel for Lucea in mind, he and his colleague MP Barrington Gray (JLP-Eastern Hanover) had met with officials of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), to work out a programme to revive the production of Lucea yam, a species indigenous to the parish. The yam, it seems, is as scarce the ships that used to drop anchor in the once-busy Lucea Harbour. “Most people don’t understand,” said Anson. “The Lucea yam is a special yam, totally different (in) texture.
Publisher finds success with business magazine
abc.net.au - Apr 23, 2006
I came out of a law degree and then ended up working in public relations, investor relations, PR at the height of the dot. com boom, which is probably what got me excited about the fast-growth business space. JAYNE EDWARDS: James Tuckerman is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Australian Anthill, a business magazine that’s grown from the most humble of beginnings three years ago to a circulation about a third of market leader BRW, and growing. JAMES TUCKERMAN, AUSTRALIAN ANTHILLMAGAZINE: My due diligence was somewhat limited.
Hardliner Shi’ite Maliki to head up new government of Iraq
Irish Independent - Apr 23, 2006
Russia has offered to enrich uranium for Iran to allay concerns that Tehran could use domestically-produced enriched uranium to make nuclear bombs. But progress on the deal has been hindered by Iran’s refusal to bow to international demands that it halt all home-grown enrichment work. Canadians die in Afghanistan FOUR Canadian soldiers have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan, Canadian military officials have said. The blast happened in the Shah Wali Kot district to the north of Kandahar, spokesman Lt Mark MacIntyre said. They were travelling in a military convoy when their armoured vehicle was hit. Canada has 2,300 troops in Afghanistan.