Here are some insights into the Gonzaga’s overtime win over the Missouri Tigers on Saturday. The Good: This game looked like a Final Four NCAA tournament game. Ronny Turiaf came through once again with 23 points, 21 in the second half, to propel the Zags to an 87-80 overtime win. In the latter...
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You may, perhaps, have caught John Humphrys the other day as he savaged the latest Whitehall rain god. You will thus have heard him volubly alarmed at the prospect and threat of summer standpipes in the “cities of Britain”. But did you pause, look at a map of the south-east, and wonder: which cities?...
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Russia has ordered a pro-Kremlin youth group to tone down its five-month campaign of harassment and intimidation against Britain’s ambassador in Moscow. Following numerous complaints from British officials, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, issued a mild rebuke to Nashi, a fanatical nationalist youth movement that has been stalking Britain’s ambassador, Anthony Brenton. The group took...
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Don’t agree? Please ask your wife, husband or significant other—in other words, the nearest typical consumer—to answer the following 7 questions: 1. Does viewing pop-up ads on your computer curl your toes in orgasmic delight? Yes or No? 2. Does a mailbox filled with junk mail cause your palms to itch and sweat with nervous anticipation? Yes or...
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Al-Jazeera’s long-awaited English language satellite TV service has announced its African lineup of bureaux and reporters. The new 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, al-Jazeera International, will operate five bureaux on the continent and a roster of former BBC, CNN and South African Broadcasting Corporation reporters. The launch of al-Jazeera International has twice been delayed...
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Matthew Hayden, enjoying huge success in the Indian Premier League, which reaches its climax in South Africa this weekend, has called on the game’s governing body to take note of the success of Twenty20 cricket and make future international programs reflect this. “The market dictates in what form a product moves forward and we’ve seen...
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