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4 July 2003
- Danger Here: Helder’s Trampoline Tottenham Shows the Truth Is Out There
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‘Harry Kewell will anxiously prod a calculator before pronouncing Anfield, Highbury or the Nou Camp a
“dream come true.”
And eventually Arsenal’s dallying musketeers may finally decide if it’s to be
“one for all”
or all for a quick buck and a
“too good to turn down”
offer from Italy or Spain.’
- AllAfrica: Police Disperse Youth Protest Against President Taylor
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‘The anti-Taylor protestors, who carried palm fronds, chanted:
“We want peace, no more Taylor. We like Bush”
. One carried a banner with the inscription:
“Taylor must step down now. We are tired of living like this”
.’
- Buber’s Basque Page: A Short History of the Basque Country
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‘The worst thing that can happen to a people is for it not to write its own history as this means such a people is at the mercy of other historians. THe first news of the Basque people comes to us through the ancient geographers, in particular Pliny and Ptolemy.’
- Fun With Words: Collective Nouns
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‘…mob of emus…implausibility of gnus…bloat of hippopotami…tidings of magpies…crèche of penguins…building of rooks…descent of woodpeckers…’
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BBC Sport: Davies on trial at Bolton
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‘The 26-year-old striker is desperate to find a new club and will spend a week trying to impress boss Sam Allardyce.’
Please Lord, no.
- George Orwell: Shooting An Elephant
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‘It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.’
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FT.com: Populism will pull Italy’s coalition apart
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‘His macho,
“shoot-from-the-lip”
style of public debate makes few waves now in Italy but outside it provokes understandable incomprehension. That incomprehension and consequent condemnation will now feed back into domestic politics, inducing a further deterioration in the embattled prime minister’s self- destructive behaviour.’