At 7.30am last Thursday, Vincent Leonard sat at his desk in Bloxham Stockbrokers in Limerick. It was only nine hours later, when the markets closed, that he again became aware of time. He hadn’t moved; he hadn’t eaten; he hadn’t done anything ...
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LONDON - A British company has delayed publication of a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives after its offices were firebombed, a magazine reported Saturday. The Bookseller magazine said on its website that Gibson Square ...
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(AP) LONDON - A British company has delayed publication of a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives after its offices were fire-bombed, a magazine reported Saturday. The Bookseller magazine said on its Web site that Gibson ...
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It was at Andy Anderson's print shop that I first encountered the young lawyer-revolutionary Nelson Mandela. He was not a frequent shebeener or drinker, but 40 years later, when he was president and I was his biographer, he would often introduce me ...
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Virgin Media has told the leading online speed checkers that it will be publishing its own monthly data to show the discrepancies in their results – but also that it is happy to work with them to ensure that accuracy is improved. Presumably worried ...
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Bad news is generally good news for the media. At times of crisis, newspaper sales rise and more viewers tune in to television bulletins in search of information. Few stories are as dramatic, or as complicated, as the global credit crunch, which has ...
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