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2009-04-07 … as $20 billion of exposure to the troubled insurance giant American International Group Inc. Lucas van Praag, a Goldman spokesman, on Sunday said the Times article was wrong to suggest that Goldman had reason to be concerned about AIG's problems. "Although we have said many times on the record that our …
2009-03-13 … around can't say the same," he said. The prospect of social unrest has become a frequent topic of discussion in the media as well. In the New York Times on Sunday, an opinion piece by Liaquat Ahamed entitled "Subprime Europe" cited the economic collapse of the region, which he compared to the …
2008-10-13 … the banks with taxpayer money is the existence of token provisions in the bailout bill imposing certain limitations on the pay of top executives. The Times wrote: “It is not clear, administration officials said, that the largest American banks would agree to this, particularly given the restrictions on …
2009-06-10 … fighter jets ready for forward deployment in the state of Assam, which is just to the south of Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian government, the Times of India admits, “is slowly responding to the uncertainties of Chinese intentions, by enhancing its state of preparedness in the area.” According to …
2009-05-01 … high tax rates right out of the water. I highly recommend it as a way to dispel the lingering effects of May Eve/May Morning. Addendum: a piece from the Times from a couple of days ago pointing out quite how fiscally useless the 50pc tax rate (or 63.8pc if you add on National Insurance) will be. Picture …
2009-04-23 … doesn’t see the need for a Labour party – and we don’t need one either. The last decade has shown us why. Hattip for the photo: Peter Brookes at the Times
2009-04-22 … at-a-glance pieces for the Budget, which I have no qualms in saying reads like an obituary for the UK economy, mirrored by the equivalent piece in the Times. Predictably, Iain Dale (who was covering the Budget speech live) has already exploded with rage at the sheer mendacious profligacy of this …
2009-04-20 The Times and BBC are trumpeting the news this morning that the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, will announce an ‘emergency Budget’ on Wednesday that will …
2009-04-15 … is starting to be known as ‘Smeargate’ will/could/ought to be for UK politics. A particularly potent related piece is this one by Alice Miles of the Times, already picked out for (albeit selective) praise from Guido and Iain Dale. Clearly the MSM will have to start paying more attention to what the …
2009-01-12 … I know perfectly well which one I’m going to worry about more. UPDATE: Well well well – looks like the scientist in the article, here in the Times’s incarnation, was fibbing. Or so, it seems, Google think…
2007-10-07 The Times has a fascinating article covering the debate in the Evangelical community on whether it’s appropriate for churches to sponsor Halo nights and …
2008-02-20 … that in a closed, repressive society, the post-Fidel era is clearly at hand, and the Bush administration has done almost nothing to prepare for it. The Times of London believes that the world should be under no illusion that Castro has wrecked his country,while the Wall Street Journal says the end of …
2008-02-10 … by psychiatry.” After a message was left with the church seeking comment on the apparently leaked videos, links to which were initially sent to The Times by investigative journalist Mark Ebner, a spokesman identifying himself as Kendrick Moxon returned a call to say he was aware of the video. He …
2008-11-10 … states became solidly Republican. This has damaged Democratic chances for several decades but now this seems to be reversing. Danny Finkelstein in The Times attributes this to an emergent ‘chattering’ middle class- richer and more educated than before which has markedly different views than previous …
2008-10-09 … Economist), Guardian, 12th August, 2008 ‘No need to worry, this crisis will probably turn out to be another storm in a tea-cup’ Anatole Kaletsky, The Times, 6th September 2007[and many similar statements since…] Slow Realisation It took a while-well over a year- for the world to wake up to the fact that …
2006-11-19 … and the Democrats have been forced to tack to the right to stand any chance against the party of Bush and his religious evangelical supporters. The Times 9th November sees this Blue Dog tactic as a means of Democrats approaching mid-west and southern contests in the 2008 presidential election. Jim …
2009-07-08 … are real battles going on – we do not need al Gore's pathetic attempt to turn his failing religion into a crisis. And, to give it its due, it is The Times which affords most space to the real world issue of "defence of the realm", even giving that title to its leader. Needless to say, the paper …
2009-07-04 … the media was perhaps unwarranted, although it is largely The Times making the running. It was The Daily Telegraph that made the running yesterday. The Times has Michael Evans reporting that Thorneloe's death "reignites equipment row" – although he is falling for the MoD line that the Viking was adequate …
2009-07-02 … of the lengthy post is taken up with eulogies, the text forming the bulk of the copy used by the media, drowning the limited operational detail. The Times follows this line. Despite Michael Evans offering critical detail of the Viking, his newspaper offers a "commentary" by Crispin Black discussing how …
2009-06-21 … has fallen to where I had earlier targeted (high 20's) as a probable nadir, it bears mentioning that it has occurred sooner than I would have liked. The times between June and July expiries are statistically the lowest readings for volatility. For those thinking of purchasing autumn options, be aware that …
2009-06-13 … a significant move into South Waziristan, where the Pakistani Taliban is based, US officials say. RUSSIANS OUTFOX US IN LATEST GREAT GAME […] Times are changing in Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian republic that not long ago was a hoped-for springboard for Western-style democracy in the …
2007-04-27 Army chiefs fear that a fatal attack on two British soldiers in Iraq last week was a dry run for an attempt on Prince Harry’s life, The Times has learnt. The attack was made on a type of vehicle that the Prince will use, and took place in a part of the country where he is due to be …
2009-06-26 … is ready to lead and would pressure other countries to follow. Rejection could mean more wasted years and more damage to the planet. Interestingly, the Times looks at the bill on a more global basis. A lot of the no’s see their opposiition more local terms. The Washington Post tries yes, but: Even if it …
2008-07-25 … rather speak to the persistent divide in how Americans think about race, a divide that too frequently is only discussed by behavioral researchers. The Times article provides a link to the results of the entire survey, revealing a number of interesting findings. First, as reported in the story, White …
2009-06-18 Above is a 90-minute documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. Milk, though he was once a Goldwater supporter, came on to the American political scene as a candidate of the Left. So why would a …
2009-06-18 … as he defended his own during eight years in office. - Washington Times (ed. note. I purposely pulled this from a right-wing website that filtered the Times' story, so you could see that I'm not far off base, even if I come to different conclusions.) Couple of points before I dive headlong into the fray …
2009-06-16 … and Arizona, and federal law, were few and far between and peanuts compared to the multi-billion dollar busts seen on Wall Street. According to the Times-News, Richard Kreger, senior managing director of investment banking, said he joined Source Capital just three months ago because he was impressed …
2009-05-17 … of the European Commission, the Turkish Economy Minister Ali Babacan, the queen of Spain Sophia and the queen of Holland Beatrice. AND from the Times May 14, 2009 Don’t tell anyone, don’t breathe a word, but the world’s most powerful men are meeting secretly again to save the planet from economic …
2009-01-10 … this was also because of the international expansion of UK banks including wholesale business. The media dogs, like Anatole Kaletsky recently in The Times, responding to the simple-minded statements by messrs Osborne and Cameron, and absurd questions about whether to tax household savings, have got …
2009-06-08 … the Chancellor of Germany. Paul Von Hindenburg tried to keep Hitler out of office. But Germany was tired of chaos, and opted for disaster in stead. The Times of London has the following headline today: «European elections: extremist and fringe parties are the big winners». The British newspaper writes …
2009-06-27 … staff wash their hands clean of revered writers like Floyd Norris and Bob Herbert? Or should we perhaps look at this from another angle? Is the Times changing its stance on the entire Obama government politics? Is it going to give up the noble art of cheerleading? Is that the sound of a baton …
2009-01-30 The other day Adam blogged about the House of Representatives adding a protectionist clause to the Obama stimulus package. This article from The Times fleshes out the issue, noting that the protectionist clause was added at the behest of the US Steel industry. As Rosemary Righter, the article …
2009-01-30 This is a great little piece of satire from Morten Morland, whose cartoons can be found at The Times.
2006-10-23 … become a standard amusement. “There is an apprenticeship of destruction. Kids learn where the petrol tank is, how to make a petrol bomb,” he told The Times. Nicolas Sarkozy, the Interior Minister who hopes to win the presidency next May, has once again taken the offensive, staging raids on the no-go …
2009-04-11 … find an equally effective way to mobilize those Catholics who hope to build bridges [with the Obama Administration on these social issues],” wrote the Times. NY Times Article Those who are watching prophecy unfold should recognize that Rome gains much political clout by its independence on social moral …
2008-05-20 … a lie concocted by fifth columnists doing their masters’ bidding. 1. The Guardian (UK), March 28, 2008. 2. The Independent (UK), April 9, 2008. 3. The Times (London), in The Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 2008. 4. Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop’s Conference and the Zimbabwe …
2008-03-05 … a Dine (Navajo) reservation, “mining companies walked away from their cleanup responsibilities” of a thousand open mines after the Cold War ended. The Times stated “among the horrors” that resulted were “shifting mountains of uranium tailings; open mines leaching contaminated rain into drinking water …
2009-03-06 … – The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for The Times. The population multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics reveals. In the same period …
2009-06-24 … Azad University before deciding to take private classes to become a tour guide, hoping to ultimately lead Iranians on trips abroad, the L.A. Times reported. She was reportedly passionate about traveling and had gone with friends to Dubai, Turkey and Thailand. The young Iranian was also an …
2009-06-19 So what do I think about the NightJack case? Without much enthusiasm, I am inclined to the opinion that the Times has right on its side. Just. All bloggers, by definition, are publishing work in the public domain. Nearly all bloggers are amateurs, which means …
2008-06-27 … and death […] This is a historic moment in the struggle for animal rights […] Pedro Pozas, the Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, told The Times […] It will doubtless be remembered as a key moment in the defence of our evolutionary comrades […] Reactions to the vote were mixed. Many Spaniards …
2009-03-01 … the Parisian working class were ‘storming the heavens’. The Paris Commune was to be the most significant action of the proletariat until 1917. The Times criticised Darwin’s application of evolutionary ideas to humans, which it claimed would lead to “the most murderous revolution”.8 Aftermath Behind …
2009-06-24 … (See Financial Times Alphaville and Latvia Economy Watch on the economic situation in Latvia). The June 24, 2009 headline from Gary Duncan at The Times Online reads European Commission Puts Economies of Struggling Britain and Ireland in the Same Category as Latvia, as the governments of Britain and …
2008-12-18 … as Exhibit A in the court of public opinion. “The sort of critique we made in the lawsuit has been borne out,” says plaintiff Henry Weinstein, the Times’ former legal affairs writer and now a professor at UCI’s new law school. In addition to the Times, Tribune’s assets include KTLA-TV, the Chicago …
2007-09-15 … newspaper market,[90] and traditionally focuses on celebrity-led stories. The Daily Telegraph, a right-of-centre broadsheet paper, has overtaken The Times (tabloid size format) as the highest-selling of the "quality" newspapers .[91] The Guardian is a more liberal (left-wing) "quality" broadsheet. The …
2009-06-06 Anyone wishing for clarity in this confused political situation can seldom do better than read Peter Riddell in The Times. The Times is pretty good in the crisis too. Gordon's reshuffle was rescued just, by the successful isolation of Purnell's attempted coup but it did …
2009-02-15 … tainted. I just read about a fantastic resource allowing teachers to work through the Israeli / Palestinian conflict constructively. It features in The Times (Educational Supplement) http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007912 According to www.oasisofpeaceuk.og the next workshop runs in London on …
2009-06-23 … almost from scratch. Kabul’s central government is notoriously corrupt, but the tales from the field are even more distressing. Journalists for The Times have reported seeing police officers burglarizing a home and growing opium poppies inside police compounds. American soldiers complain of police …
2008-02-10 … country or in many districts — even in those places where the rule of law does exist, sometimes we cannot enforce the law over some people.” Sign Of The Times Dostum has changed sides and alliances many times during Afghanistan’s 30 years of war. He has been a key ally of U.S. forces since late 2001 in the …
2009-03-31 … expressed openly in this political context. On May 26, 1991, only five days after the British-controlled LTTE-led assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the Times of London, the premier voice for the British Foreign Office, put forward this view in an editorial entitled “Home Truths”: “There are so many …
2009-03-16 … expressed their displeasure to Colombo in no uncertain terms. The effectiveness of their boycott of Pakistan was being neutralised by Sri Lanka. The Times of India was bold enough to say “India is not happy with Sri Lanka’s cricket tour to Pakistan”. The Sunday Times opined that Ranatunge’s decision to …
2008-11-08 … in the court that he had nothing to do with RSS, despite the fact that he was a trained RSS volunteer (swayamsevak). In an interview given to ?The Times of India? (25 Jan 98), his brother Gopal Godse, who was also an accomplice in the murder, elaborated the apparent reasons for hiding their …
2008-10-23 … Roy’s article urging ‘azadi’ for Kashmir was followed by similar columns by Vir Sanghvi in Hindustan Times and by S. A. Aiyar and Jug Suraiya in theTimes of India — all of them operatives of C.I.A.-RAW — and others while RAW organised further ‘azadi’ rallies in Kashmir of the kind I referred to below. …
2009-02-20 … president with divided loyalties! Now do you see why congress and the Supreme Court should have made Obama show proof of natural born citizenship? "The times are dark, the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power, and the mercy of God alone can save us." "Our reliance is the love of liberty which God …
2009-01-18 … Times (SA): “Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko is being held in solitary confinement in Harare’s Chikurubi maximum security prison.” The Times also reports that Ms. Mukoko is currently detained “in a section reserved for hardcore criminals” and, according to a warder, despite the existence …
2008-11-01 … discuss the issues, they cover their ears and make humming noises, the way my husband does when I say it is time to take a look at our 401(k)s. In The Times’s poll, the percentage of respondents who said that they weren’t totally sure who they were going to vote for was almost identical to the percentage …
2008-10-31 I sometimes wonder if the Times publishes Bobo and Krugman on the same day just to make fun of Bobo. He’s being a policy wonk today and discussing “A National Mobility Project.” …
2008-10-29 MoDo’s writing fiction again. I really wish someone at the Times would tell her that they’ll refuse to pay for her overheated fantasizing. Today she gives us “For Your Consideration,” and has produced a …
2008-10-27 … was good news when Mr. Paulson finally agreed to funnel capital into the banking system in return for partial ownership. But last week Joe Nocera of The Times pointed out a key weakness in the U.S. Treasury’s bank rescue plan: it contains no safeguards against the possibility that banks will simply sit on …
2008-10-26 Today the Times has opened the floodgates and we have 9 columnists, so I’m breaking them down into 2 sections. Judith Warner writes about “No Ordinary Woman,” and …
2009-06-13 … to thank for the bulk of their anti-pollution technology. But the Chinese hypocrisy turns out to be even worse than one could imagine. Try this from the Times of London: Officials from Beijing told a UN conference in Bonn yesterday that China would increase its emissions to develop its economy rather than …
2008-07-05 … and respectable organs of opinion. Not so Islamophobia. “There is a definite urge; don’t you have it?”, the author Martin Amis told Ginny Dougary of The Times: “The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order. Not letting them travel. Deportation; further down the road. Curtailing …
2008-05-05 … Government finally has grasped the nettle of reform, he says. “They started the process late, but hopefully not too late,” he shrugs, speaking to The Times at E.ON’s sleek corporate HQ in Düsseldorf. Over the next ten years, British industry will be transformed as old nuclear and coal plants are …
2007-04-25 … Few paragraphs could sum up the present day government than this one, from David Cameron’s speech on civility. Also worth reading is the sketch in The Times. But for all the ease of joking – and such a stance has much opportunity to lampoon – it’s true. As a society, civility has gone out the window. As …
2009-06-12 … political mainstream”: not that any such talk will save a single job. Little different are the likes of John Cruddas—portrayed by the Guardian and Times as an ‘outspoken left backbencher’, Cruddas’s calls for a major policy debate are rather less enticing when we remember that after years working as …
2009-06-03 … animosity towards the beleaguered Prime Minister – but it all adds to the sense that the government cannot stumble on much longer. Yesterday The Times – and today The Guardian – called on the Cabinet to get rid of Gordon Brown. Sooner or later, Brown will fall, even if he does manage to cling on to …
2009-05-26 … from the new ‘Political Manifesto’ of that champion of British establishment The Times, itself a virtual institution of the upper class. Correctly The Times recognise there is a deeper problem with the political system manifested in the ever decreasing participation in elections and a “sullen, cynical …
2009-05-21 … such a loss of confidence in the key institution of the UK state is a matter of deep concern for the establishment. Amidst the media frenzy The Times warned that despite the corruption the “traditions of Parliament have also protected freedom and the rule of law” and now “an important reputation …
2009-05-13 … western governments of trying to eradicate pan-Africanism in order to deny real independence to African countries by imposing client regimes.[128] The Times of London charged that on 12 June 2008, Mugabe's Militia murdered Dadirai Chipiro, the wife of Mugabe's political opponent, Patson Chipiro, by …
2009-07-02 … advocating blowing something up for its own good. In the Washington Post. Again. Remember when there used to be a difference between the Post and the Times?
2008-02-23 … between reality and fantasy. -The Stage Is Set- With the death of the dollar, the time is ripe for the institution of a trustworthy monetary system. The times demand it, and so does the survival of our economic and political order. The task is not difficult, if we ignore—for once—the political pressures …
2009-06-30 … new settlements or expropriating more land. Today's Times story leaves open the possibility that the Israelis are simply making this up. But the Times itself, on Aug. 21, 2004, confirmed that this was the understanding of U.S. officials as well: The Bush administration, moving to lend political …
2009-06-28 … Basij: money. "We are getting paid 200,000 toman [about $200] a day by the government," a member of the group said in an e-mail made available to The Times. "We are being instructed to go into the streets and hit people, everyone and anyone who is out, until they can no longer get up. We are being fed …
2009-06-27 … our spam-fighting efforts. Sincerely, The Blogger Team Sure, just a coincidence. See the sidebar at Hall of Record […] A Sign of the Times? Is this the new “justice” for America? A massive armed federal raid in Utah has resulted in two deaths, including the suicide of a popular small …
2009-07-01 … design of the Airbus's computerized flight controls. The vertical stabilizer is one of the largest intact pieces of the plane recovered so far, and the Times of London reported this week that "one of the 24 automatic messages sent from the plane minutes before it disappeared pointed to a problem in the …
2007-12-01 … Press with 98,44,710 copies came third. Urdu and Malayalam language press closely followed with 92,17,892 and 82,06,227 copies respectively. The Times of India, having six editions in English with a combined circulation of 25,42,075 copies came first among multi-edition dailies. Dainik Bhaskar in …
2007-10-31 … covering close to 100,000 km across India using 16 forms of transportation, including walking 5,000km on foot. He credits two sympathetic editors at the Times with much of his success in getting the articles published in their present form, since it is one among the very newspapers that has been accused of …
2009-06-19 … that I regularly buy and read- the Economist and Private Eye. There are a selection of magazines- Prospect, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books that I often buy or consider buying- but my two staples are the Economist and Private Eye. I'm …
2009-06-24 An apparent exclusive from the Times: a team from KPMG have been called in to investigate a £100m hole in the 2012 Olympics finances of the London Development Agency. £100m that the LDA …
2009-01-30 … trade body the BPI wasn't thrilled by those previously reported comments made by the UK's Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy and printed in The Times. As previously reported, Lammy told the paper that he didn't think the government could introduce laws to force ISPs to cut off persistent file …
2008-12-02 … came through a November 16th New York Times editorial entitled, “A Military for a Dangerous New World.” Putting economic crises on the back burner, the Times demanded, “the Obama administration will have to rebuild and significantly reshape the military.” Times editors identified near- and long-term …
2009-06-06 … so racist in a quasi-mainstream newspaper since the days of the civil rights movement. I note that at the time of writing Pruden's column is #2 in the Times' list of the "Most Read" and #1 among the "Most Shared." I hope the Secret Service is following the Washington Times with interest. When a newspaper …
2009-05-06 … since I have always found wit and anger to be perfectly compatible in any order you choose. In any event, the review was just the sort of thing the Times needs to maintain a readership in these troubling days. Some 700 readers had left comments, of which I was saved from reading by the advent of the …
2008-03-29 … percent stake in Rio Tinto to prevent the Australian mining giant bhp Billiton from gaining control over the $132 billion diversified mining giant. The Times called China’s action “the first shots in a new economic war.” And much of the rest of the world, including the European Union, is scrambling to tie …
2009-02-07 The Times of London learned this week that President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reduction talks with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash …
2008-02-25 … would you? And Mr. Drum again, on the New York Times: Times reader aren't children. We all know what this means, and we all know perfectly well that the Times piece loudly insinuated some kind of inappropriate romantic involvement between McCain and Iseman. So far, though, the Q&A has addressed only the …
2009-07-07 … the Forumla One chief's disgraceful remarks about Hitler. Pollard even alleges that one of Mandelson's little helpers penned his mea culpa in The Times this morning. Is it wise for the BIS Secretary to be so close to someone who has, shall we say, a chequered record in his dealings with the Labour …
2008-06-23 That fearsome right-wing triumvirate – Robert Halfon for ConservativeHome, The Spectator’s Stephen Pollard and The Times’s Daniel Finkelstein – all repeat what they consider to be a terribly clever point about Gordon Brown’s tainting of David Cameron as a ‘shallow …
2008-03-10 Much scratching of heads tonight among some hacks confused by the latest Populus poll in The Times showing “the Tory poll lead shrinking fast”. Here’s Sky News’s Jon Craig: Voting intentions, according to Populus, are now Conservatives 37 per cent …
2007-05-31 … publication … cannot serve as license to print rumors that would not meet the test of The Times’s own reporting standards. Rumors must satisfy The Times’s standard of newsworthiness, taste and plausibility before publication, even when attributed. And when the need arises to attribute, that is a good …
2007-06-01 … body on, the Secret Service’s responsibilities for presidential protection spread. The attempt itself was comic, described by a reviewer at the Times of London as a plot hatched by the three stooges. Mr. Craughwell’s books conveys the comedy and more serious stuff: the tragic assassination at …
2007-04-21 … “He was very outgoing, a very personable individual,” Richard Shryock, the chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, told the Times. “He was someone who took teaching very seriously and was a good colleague to be with.” Bishop earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in German and …
2008-12-20 … AstraZeneca, which this year signed a sponsor agreement with two Nobel companies with close ties to the Nobel Foundation: Nobel Web and Nobel Media. The Times reported yesterday that a member of the jury also sat on AstraZeneca’s board. Prosecutors are studying whether the multinational pharmaceutical …
2009-06-23 … year and not as a weekly section." And on the same day, the New York Times arrived with a shrunken magazine, as previously announced. Speaking of the Times, this week's Book Review adds a new chapter to the never-ending demonstration that Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. This comes courtesy of two …
2009-07-02 … have the situation under control, and among Western politicians preparing for the evacuation of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011,” wrote the Times of London. Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt warned that the security situation in Iraq “will hinge as much on Iran as the Iraqi …
2009-05-27 … it harder to divide Jerusalem as part of any two-state solution. One official from Netanyahu’s office who defended the government’s position told the Times of London, “Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish people for some 3,000 years and will remain the united capital of the State of …
2009-02-11 … yesterday, arguing that an ad in the Times was more effective than ads on all of the top radio stations in L.A. Obviously, the marketers at the Times can smell blood in the water. I’ll be curious to see radio’s response in this clash of the dying. Update 4/14/9: According to a report in …
2009-04-26 … path I’d taken Somehow knowing I’d awaken In spite of often being In a frantic ravenous state When pearls of wisdom gleamed at much too slow a rate The times that life left my Soul empty and bare Haunting eternally the air With dreary gloom and murky shadows Still my crusade for Truth did wage As I groped …
2009-02-20 … Moser) Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of Wallace Stegner’s birth. The New York Times‘ Timothy Egan recalls how Stegner was screwed over by the Times. The film version of Revolutionary Road tanked at the box office, but the book’s doing fine. Scott Esposito crowdsourced his decision about which …
2009-07-02 … have the situation under control, and among Western politicians preparing for the evacuation of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011,” wrote the Times of London. Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt warned that the security situation in Iraq “will hinge as much on Iran as the Iraqi …
2009-05-27 … it harder to divide Jerusalem as part of any two-state solution. One official from Netanyahu’s office who defended the government’s position told the Times of London, “Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish people for some 3,000 years and will remain the united capital of the State of …
2009-07-02 … have the situation under control, and among Western politicians preparing for the evacuation of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011,” wrote the Times of London. Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt warned that the security situation in Iraq “will hinge as much on Iran as the Iraqi …
2009-05-27 … it harder to divide Jerusalem as part of any two-state solution. One official from Netanyahu’s office who defended the government’s position told the Times of London, “Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish people for some 3,000 years and will remain the united capital of the State of …
2008-12-25 … in the right direction. Besides, it'll give me a hearty laugh, and really: he's good enough, he's smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like him. The Times report reminded me of another recent AP story. Just a few days ago, the effort to repeal Proposition 8 was given an immense boost when CA Attorney …
2009-02-09 … PS, but the following two are a good primer to see how it all relates using their own words: Roach, Richard. The Great Crisis: or, The Mystery of the Times and Seasons Unfolded; With Relation to The late Disorder and Confusion of the Seasons of the Year, and other SIGNS of the Times. With Considerations …
2009-06-07 … Online Book Review: Empires Of Trust (Part I) - DarwinCatholic, American Catholic Women Less Happy After 40 Years Of Feminism - Richard Woods, The Times Obama As "The Spirit Of Vatican II" President - Donald R. McClarey, American Cthlc Pentecost On Mount Athos - Sandro Magister, Chiesa If Only He …
2009-05-20 The Ladette, indeed Here’s another shout out for a great piece on Tracey Emin from the Times Online. Emin is having her first show in London in four years which, by design, should incite the usual contentiousness since it is an animation of …
2009-05-22 … inquiries we have had from our first-time buyers [new supporters], around 60 percent of them have come from Labour," UKIP leader Nigel Farrage said, the Times reports. UKIP and Labour are both polling at around 16 percent, compared to UKIP's 6 percent at the start of May. The anti-Lisbon treaty Libertas …
2009-05-27 … London has an article which includes statements from Murat Karayılan, which you can access through Hevallo's blog. Below are some of the photos at The Times: The guerrillas' own photos can always be viewed at http://www.hpg-online.net/Photo/ Since so many people have such short memories, let me point out …
2008-05-28 … paying big bucks for their data plans. I think business travelers would certainly pay for a non-biased, social, local, mobile search service. The times I’ve been in the center of a strange town I would have certainly loved to have a rich view of where I was. Have you heard of Blippr yet? I think it …
2009-07-08 The Times reports that the sitting Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has a comfortable lead in exit polls taken after the Indonesian …
2009-07-07 … by the Lisbon Treaty. He quotes Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne saying, "I don't think that's how the EU becomes more relevant". IHT The Times reports that Jadrankar Kosor has become Croatia's first woman Prime Minister after Ivo Sanader stepped down last week. She has vowed to revive …
2009-07-06 … Irish Independent Irish Independent: Sheahan Irish Independent: Leader European leaders keen to help Brown in order to keep Lisbon Treaty on track The Times reports that European leaders are so desperate for Gordon Brown to stay in power until after the Lisbon Treaty comes into force that they are …
2009-07-02 … EU President. Irish Times European Voice Independent Der Spiegel Portuguese PM's corruption case could "lead to the decapitation of Eurojust" In the Times, solicitors Arturo John and Ben Rose look at Eurojust, the EU body designed to coordinate the tackling of cross-border organised crime, under the …
2009-07-01 … EU partners, as well as China and the US to sign up to tough cuts in greenhouse gases at the summit to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the Times reports. Reinfeldt has stressed that the Copenhagen agreement has to include all the developing countries that were effectively left out by Kyoto if …
2009-06-30 … retaliation from 27 countries rather than one "little Satan", Iran might just think again. This is an important test of EU cohesion and solidarity." The Times reports that one option being considered by the EU is for all 27 member states "to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran temporarily as a …
2009-06-24 … He adds that "the member states should not force financial oversight now, but allow the next commission to take the necessary steps". In a letter to the Times, the Adam Smith Institute argues: "We are concerned that hasty agreement to EU proposals for financial services regulation has pre-empted the …
2009-06-23 … shareholders to be more responsible with corporate governance. It is "unlikely to be the last word from our friends in Brussels". Independent In the Times, Bronwen Maddox writes that "the strength of response of European governments to the crisis in Tehran is a welcome -- if surprising -- step... the …
2009-06-22 … near future." Conservative Home Independent William Rees-Mogg: Will Labour sacrifice their best election chance for the Lisbon Treaty? Writing in the Times, William Rees-Mogg argues that a General Election in the UK in the autumn would be the best chance for Labour to minimise an election defeat, but …
2009-06-19 … communiqu […] would say that EU-level decisions would "not impinge in any way on the fiscal responsibilities of the member states". According to the Times, Gordon Brown said, "The fiscal authority in the case of Britain is Britain". The second point of contention is who will head the European Systemic …
2009-06-17 … the union of European democracies, the door has been open". Reuters FT Conservatives disagree with Czech partners on other members of new alliance The Times reports that the Conservatives have irritated their Czech partners over their new anti-federalist grouping in the European Parliament by refusing to …
2009-06-29 … the Senate after the narrow victory in the House, delayed the start of a Sunday golf game to speak to a small group of reporters in the Oval Office, The Times said. He acknowledged that the initial targets for reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases set by the House bill were quite modest and would …
2009-06-16 … a global tax on carbon and accept an increase in the cost of flying for the sake of the environment, the chief executive of British Airways has told The Times. The airline is the first in the world to propose that all airline passengers should pay an additional sum which would be likely to rise steadily …
2007-09-12 … are paid nationally 17% less for doing the same job, according to the latest National Management Salary Survey. Frances Gibb and Marcus Leroux in The Times, 5th September disingenuously reveal that 75% of women in the survey viewed qualifications as benefiting their career prospects compared with 66% of …
2008-07-07 … Unlike the hardline courts in Islamic law Muslim nations, they handle more mundane and financial issues according to Muslim beliefs. Speaking to The Times, Suhaib Hasan, from the Islamic Sharia Council, who also acts as a judge, said his organisation receives 10 to 15 e-mails a day about different …
2009-06-09 … to Manchester railway. Although composed in rural isolation at Craigenputtock, when Thomas Carlyle sought to characterise this age in Signs of the Times, he did so as the Mechanical Age. Carlyle's essay was published in June 1829. In October 1829, John Kennedy was a judge at the Rainhill locomotive …
2009-02-24 … for London, the 'great wen' 20 as Cobbett described it. In London, Carlyle extended and developed the Mechanical Age theme of Signs of the Times into his critique of political economy as the 'dismal science'. 21 But, as Friederich Engels noted in 1850, Carlyle's critique of the (Mechanical) …
2008-11-10 … of German or understanding a bit of the city's history. I don't understand why Erik Kirschbaum thought he had a story here, or why Reuters and the Times thought something with this little content was worth running. Perhaps it's because so few wire services and newspaper groups actually have people on …
2008-08-13 … a year before I'd ever set foot here. One reason I was so familiar with these places is that both the guy I rented from and his girlfriend and the Times Berlin bureau were on Grolmanstr., so it was natural to go to dinner at Florian (which was still good the last time I was there), or to grab a drink …
2005-04-27 … I could get to speak to them all, if only they read my pamphlets. I`ve got to reach them to persuade them. Tuesday 29April Xday minus 9 according to the Times but ll if you’re working them all. Times Tracker L4l Con33 Lib 24 NOP Lab40 Con 30 Lib 2l. Which isn`t how it feels on the ground where the Liberals …
2009-06-11 … proportions. At the heart of the scam are the lives and future of young students and their gullible parents. A devastating report report in the Times of India today (June 11) reveals that undergraduate colleges in Mumbai have yet to receive a copy of the new syllabus for the Bachelor of Mass Media …
2009-06-08 … Times, was kidnapped also in November, 2008, with his driver and interpreter, in Logar province some 50 miles south of Kabul. Rohde was co-chief of the Times ‘s South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his coverage of …
2009-06-27 … nothing from the disaster of PFI and privatisation of prisons and other public sector institutions over the past decade or so. Yet a report in The Times (6 April) says that even before these new prisons are built twenty UK prisons already hold over 1,000 prisoners each. Colossal sums of money have …
2009-01-16 … need sand, we don’t have sand." The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus shells in the Gaza offensive, although an investigation by The Times has revealed that dozens of Palestinians in Gaza have sustained serious injuries from the substance, which burns at extremely high temperatures. The …
2009-01-15 … to provide Bank of America with billions of dollars in additional aid. The bank received $25 billion in TARP funds last year, but, according to the Times, is facing mounting losses at Merrill Lynch, which it acquired in a government subsidized deal last September engineered to avert the collapse of …
2009-05-30 Unsurprisingly polls indicate an landslide away from Labour next Thursday, they now lag behind even UKIP. More interesting is, according to the Times' analysis of the Populous poll is that, on the expenses scandal "Asked which of the leaders had been most damaged, 62 per cent said Mr Brown, 5 per …
2009-05-06 … - even heartlands like Derby - due to a combination of apathy among Labour voters and the Conservatives mobilising their support. An article in the Times suggests that if the projected swing of 12% materialises, which would be required for Labour to lose Derby, then cabinet ministers could lose their …
2009-07-08 … suddenly and without provocation go on a rampage, especially in a city where Uighurs are the minority, and where police numbers are overwhelming? As The Times (UK) points out: “Ürümqi has for years been one of the most well-controlled cities in Xinjiang because of the high and rapidly growing population of …
2009-06-15 … press of both Britain & the USA shows beyond any honest dispute that they alone can claim to be honest, liberal & freedom loving. The Guardian, The Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times are corrupt racist Nazi filth. Obscene propaganda sheets whose journalists & editors do not exceed the …
2008-06-23 … Germany lost☹ and I continued my sightseeing trip. In the end I went to the Easton Mall,a huge shopping mall at Dundas Square. Dundas Square is like the Times Square of Toronto,so nice!! This mall is really huge and so many wonderful stores☺ I’m glad I bought a new bag in Ottawa*lol* I returned to the …
2009-07-08 … different political systems, have to do with his stewardship of Formula One? Ecclestone caved into the pressure and issued toe-curling apologies to the Times newspaper and the Jewish Chronicle, where, despite having expressed no support for Hitler's persecution of Jews in his original interview, he …
2009-03-08 There are some hard hearted morons in this place I cannot believe what I am reading in the comments section of this article in The Times about Binyam Mohamed’s alleged torture, let’s make it clear and simple: Whatever information was gleaned was not sufficient to lead to ANY charges …
2008-07-21 … Oscar-winning movie. So it’s vexing that his new campaign — so far, anyway — seems unlikely to break out of the pack of “green” advertising that, as The Times reported last week, is making consumers bored and skeptical. Mr. Gore is not trying to cash in on worries about the environment with the kinds of …
2009-02-26 … One was spraying a picket’s sore throat, the other treating, sterilizing, and bandaging a blistered heel. When copies of the first edition of the Times-Press were brought into headquarters, I discovered that Powers Hapgood also was in town, on a mission similar to mine. Two pictures of him were the …
2008-07-11 This was something that was found on the Times Online. As usual quite UK-centric. Still a bit of fun. The link is below http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2215721.ece Missing …
2009-06-19 … and sympathetically about white nationalism, drawing fire from civil rights groups but support from his institution in the name of academic freedom. The Times Argus reported Sunday that Robert S. Griffin has authored several books and articles that are widely read by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other …
2009-06-16 … A-level students who would normally get into university through the clearing system will be left without a place this year, according to research by The Times. In the biggest squeeze on higher education for 20 years, tens of thousands of capable students will miss out on higher education after a huge rise …
2009-07-03 The Times loves Madison, so do we--especially this time of the year. I'm glad they mentioned Inka Heritage, one of my favorite restaurants anywhere. NY Times …
2009-04-03 … claims made by the terrorists themselves […] ZIMBABWE "Zimbabwe Prisoners in 'Hell on Earth' Die from Disease and Hunger" By Jonathan Clayton The Times, 1 April 2009 "A horrifying investigative film, shot undercover in Zimbabwe, has exposed how prisons under President Mugabe have become death camps …
2009-02-11 … worked with Ugandan officers, providing satellite phones, intelligence and $1 million in fuel. No U.S. forces were involved in ground fighting, the Times said, adding that human rights advocates and villagers said the Ugandan and Congolese troops did little to protect villagers from the attackers. …
2009-01-31 … if some of their stories could be captured […] Thomas Lubanga Becomes First to Stand Trial for War Crimes at the ICC" By Catherine Philp The Times, 26 January 2009 "The first trial at the International Criminal Court will get under way today when the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga appears on …
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