How green is your (Valentine’s Day) bouquet?
The News Review:
- How green is your (Valentine’s Day) bouquet?
- So who’s to blame when England turn off even their own fans?
- Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton
- View from America: Bush won’t cut a deal that tears up his one…
- King of the wild frontier
How green is your (Valentine’s Day) bouquet?
Daily Mail – UK – Feb 9, 2007
“We don’t wish to be killjoys because receiving flowers can belovely, but they are dead. “Why not grow your own gift?” Andrea Caldecourt, of the Flowersand Plants Association, replied that most of the red roses given onValentine’s Day come from the Netherlands, and travel by ferry androad rather than air. Other popular choices such as tulips are likely to behome-grown, she said, while scented narcissi often come fromCornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
So who’s to blame when England turn off even their own fans?
Daily Mail – UK – Feb 9, 2007
Middlesbrough reached last year?s UEFA Cup Final largely withhome-grown talent, but yesterday chairman Steve Gibson asked in aBBC radio interview: “What chances are English footballers gettingat major clubs? The Liverpools and Arsenals ? what are theycontributing at national level?”Meanwhile, Sir Alex Ferguson said in his press briefing onFriday: “I really believe it must be a worry that the FA startedthe academy system eight years ago and there are no signs ofanything. At Watford, Adrian Boothroyd called Crewe?s threat to closetheir academy “a sad indictment” and said: “We all have aresponsibility to England. We need to start building heroes. But the coach who brought through Theo Walcott and Gareth Baleat Southampton insists the academy formula is “fit for purpose” andwarned: “It?s really important that we don?t scapegoat and makeill-educated judgments. Huw Jennings, the former Southampton academy director and nowhead of youth development at the Premier League, is in the frontline of the mounting conflict between sceptics who say theproduction line is failing and a rival camp who believe thetechnical and tactical flaws in the English game stretch backgenerations.
Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton
Washington Post – Feb 9, 2007
We have enough home-grown criminals that we dont need to import any more. Round em up and send em home. We have enough home-grown criminals that we dont need to import any more. Round em up and send em home.
View from America: Bush won’t cut a deal that tears up his one…
The Independent – Independent – Feb 9, 2007
But insurgent leaders were said to have been willing to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force, as the US forces pulled out. Then as now, however, Washington refused to accept anything resembling a fixed timetable for a pull-out. The goal of the US in these talks was to detach home-grown insurgents – the “deadenders” from the fallen regime of Saddam Hussein, as the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld once called them – from the foreign fighters who had joined the war against the occupiers, above all al-Qa’ida. But while Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qa’ida commander in Iraq, was killed by the US in June 2006, insurgent attacks on US troops have continued and, if anything, become more sophisticated. The new offer has some points acceptable to the US, notably the involvement of the UN and the Arab League in any deal. But the US would be required to sit down publicly with “terrorists”. Implicitly, too, it would be siding against the Shia-dominated government of Nouri al-Maliki, to which the Bush administration is still committed.
King of the wild frontier
Belfast Telegraph – Feb 9, 2007
For starters both are of a similar age (in their forties, although Garcia is a few years younger at 42), formed hugely popular punk bands (Ludwig Von 88 and Mano Negra respectively), were brought up in Paris, had Spanish parents (in Garcia’s case his father) and went on to make solo careers out of mixing Latin music and reggae with a healthy sprinkling of socially aware punk prose. Garcia’s Spanish father, who would often play Latin soul and jazz music, ignited his fascination with Latin music. "When I was 18 I went to Barcelona for two years, and when I returned to Paris I wanted to stay in touch with the Latin community so I’d listen to a programme called Salsa Manila, which ran for three hours every Sunday. The presenters would explain everything about Latin music and it really inspired me. I started to go to all these Latin parties and saw loads of Latin bands. It really started my lifelong passion with this music… You always have the two sides in Lucha Libre [the Mexican name for wrestling] that are good and bad. They call them t