THE LIST: Sportsmail’s top 50 World Cup icons, Nos 40-31
World Cup fever has the pulse beating and the temperature rising as the countdown to South Africa 2010 continues. It’s not just the winners and the heroes who live long in the memory and this week’s edition of The List celebrates 50 icons who will forever be associated with those few weeks every four years […]
Book review: HITCH-22
To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the scotsman.com site. Galloway is one of many characters expunged from the memoirs of „the Hitch”. paraging reference, and fellow ex-firebrand Tariq Ali barely features at all. Such Orwellian excisions show how the avowedly „Janus-faced” boy from Crapstone […]
World Cup 1970 review
ENGLAND went into the tournament in Mexico as World Cup holders but it was Pele and the boys from Brazil who would emerge triumphant. The two teams met in a group match that will live long in the memory. Bobby Moore made a succession of perfectly-timed tackles, keeper Gordon Banks denied Pele with the […]
German singer Lena wins 2010 Eurovision Song Contest
By Lewis Bazley. German entrant Lena has overcome a continent to emerge victorious at Saturday evening’s Eurovision Song Contest at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway. Lena took the 2010 Eurovision title with her song Satellite, finishing with 246 points while Turkey finished in second place and Romania in third. Teenage singer Josh Dubovie had […]
Bulgaria’s Freemasons – from Bogomils to the Failed 21st Century Project and ‘The Menace Dan Brown’, Part I*
The inscription in front of the George Washington Masonic Temple in Alexandria, VA (Washington, DC suburbs). Private photo Several Bulgarian Freemasons have been interviewed for this story and their opinions are included below. Most, however, spoke only under condition of remaining anonymous. One of them, Dimitar Nedkov, agreed to give an interview to Novinite.com. Dimitar Nedkov is […]
Watch This: Rachel Weisz in Early Trailer for ‘Whistleblower’
Another worth watching trailer that appeared recently was this one for a film called The Whistleblower , starring Rachel Weisz as well as Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, David Hewlett and Liam Cunningham. It’s another one of those political-action films that’s based on real events that occurred in Bosnia. It looks pretty intense and […]
Rumäniens Sparkurs ist selbst dem IWF zu radikal
Vor dem Regierungssitz der rumänischen Regierung in Bukarest protestieren Rentner gegen Bezugskürzungen. Quelle: Reuters WARSCHAU. Mit einem unbefristeten Generalstreik des öffentlichen Dienstes wollen Rumäniens Gewerkschaften das harte Sparpaket wieder aufschnüren. Die Opposition des krisengeschüttelten Landes will sogar den Sturz des konservativen Regierungschefs Emil Boc, dessen radikaler Sparkurs selbst beim Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) auf Kritik stößt. […]
Solutions Group Accelerates Awareness of Decelerator With Twitter, Facebook and Internet Search Opti
Due to the widespreSolutions ad issues of Sudden Unintended Acceleration, CEO, Sean O’Neil of Solutions Group, Inc. has directed the company to make the highest and best use of online marketing and social media to get the word about the Company’s newest product, The Decelerator. [USPRwire, Mon May 24 2010] Sean O’Neil, CEO of Solutions […]
Slovakia approves law to strip citizenship from ethnic Hungarians
In a tit-for tat move against Hungary, the Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Monday signed into law legislation to allow stripping ethnic Hungarians living in the country of their Slovak citizenship, if they take on additional Hungarian citizenship. The law is a response to legislation passed by the Hungarian parliament last Wednesday making it easier […]
Bribery Slang Around The World
Companies seeking to stay on the right side of corruption laws should pay attention to language. Like many business transactions, corruption has its own language. Bribery hides behind innuendo and code, and when corrupt practices cross borders, multiple jargons and dialects add layers of confusion. Non-native speakers may get entangled in the web of subtext, […]
