On the domestic front, William Boyd’s thriller in Manila, The Blue Afternoon (Sinclair-Stevenson), and Patrick McGrath’s Blitz-era gothic, Dr Haggard’s Disease (Viking), both forged a link between surgery and romantic obsession: the former was a compact epic of love and loss, the latter a magnificently morbid study in derangement.ZIAUDDIN SARDARI was suitably enlightened by Paul Gilroy’s collection of essays, Small Acts (Serpent’s Tail). If we keep ever-increasing numbers of tiny babies alive, the cost, not just of the technology but of providing a lifetime of nursing support in the community, has to be found from other services. Under these altercations a faint rustling sound can be heard: ‘What’s that Alice?”What?”Listen That]”Oh, can you hear it? That’s just Misty. These included a requirement that UN observers and humanitarian bodies be granted immediate access to the city of Mostar and other towns where heavy fighting has taken place between Muslim and Croatian forces.Announcing to a press conference that he ‘would not sign anything’, the President gave an impresssion of stubborn refusal to make concessions. What, under pounds 3 at Waitrose? It can happen, and this spicy, southern French red, made in the modern, fruity style, is a good-value example.1991 Tesco McLaren Vale Chardonnay Ryecroft ( pounds 5.99, Tesco selected stores). He qualified in ninth spot.Ron Haslam gave his wild card to his Team Great Britain protege, James Haydon, at 19 the youngest man on the grid, but then found his own ride with Team ROC when one of their regulars was injured. ‘We could not and have not let such action against our nation go unanswered,’ Mr Clinton said in his television address on Saturday night announcing the attack, early on Sunday morning in Baghdad.

By finishing five and six he slipped from a share of the lead to tie with Bob Tway for third place, who also shot a three-under-par 68 on the Westchester Country Club course in Harrison.
Dudley Hart compiled a 66, five under par, to lead by one stroke from the second-placed Brandel Chamblee.With 197 yards to the pin on the 17th, Kite hit a six-iron over the green to bring about a bogey. Housebuilder Barratt today launched the UK’s first company ISA for its staff.

The group has teamed up with insurer Legal & General to offer its workers
access to 10 investment funds in a tax-free ISA wrapper.

The product works in the same way as any other stocks and shares ISA, with
staff able to save up to £10,200 a year into it.

But it has the added benefit of lower management charges, as well as enabling
staff to make contributions through payroll deductions.

Employees can contribute to the ISA on a regular basis through the payroll, or
make one-off contributions as long as they are at least £200.

They can manage their money online and adjust the amount they are saving at
any time.

They can also transfer money they have saved in other ISAs into the fund and
make withdrawals whenever they want to, as long as at least £200 is being
taken out.

Jayne Mee, people and customer experience director at Barratt Developments,
said: “We are continually looking to improve the benefits and rewards we
offer to our employees and that is why we are excited to be launching the
first ever corporate ISA.

“They will be able to take advantage of low management fees and make payments
from payroll deductions as part of this highly competitive way of saving for
the future.”

Tony Filbin, Legal & General’s managing director of workplace savings, said:
“Regular contribution company ISAs are set to revolutionise participation in
company saving schemes.

“It is now possible for employers to take a huge step to drive effective
workplace savings forward.”. On Midland Montagu’s calculation, the market’s expectation of long-run UK inflation dropped from 5.3 per cent to 5.1 per cent in a day’s trading. He wasn’t a remarkable intellect, or at least he wasn’t an obvious one.’He used the time other people spent drinking playing sports: taking advantage of his unusual skill, he won a half- blue at Royal Tennis.Hampel joined ICI as a trainee in 1955. They wanted to see the best players in the Olympics.One hundred and eighty countries have watched the final tonight, about three billion people, and if somewhere a 13-year-old boy now wants to be a Magic, a Jordan or a Bird it will have been a good thing It gives people dreams to chase. The reward – pounds 5,000 from an anonymous donor, pounds 20,000 from the Sun and pounds 25,000 from the Daily Mirror – was offered as psychologists devised an appeal, to be released today, to the woman who took the baby from the Queen’s Medical Centre on Friday.
If the woman – who disguised herself as a nurse and persuaded the baby’s father to hand over the child for a ‘routine hearing test’ – fails to respond to the appeal, detectives are expected to release a rear-view picture of a suspect and another female witness caught on security cameras at the hospital.’There is going to be an opportune moment to release the picture but we believe we should try this first,’ a police spokesman said yesterday.

In any case, argued the distributors who began raking in huge profits from sales, the chants were traditional and surely part of the public domain.Now, however, two former monks who directed the recording have published the scores of the chants, claimed they are original arrangements and dropped discreet hints that they expect royalties from an estimated 3 million copies sold worldwide so far and from future sales.’The sound, the rhythm, the phrasing, etc are the fruits of our personal contribution,’ said Ismael Fernandez, one of the two former monks who directed the Silos choir. Strong demand in North America and Asia, along with a collapse in Russian supplies and constraints on South African and Australian exports, have all helped the it back up. I shall soon be able to go to Paris in the time, on a bad day, that it takes me to drive to Heathrow and back. Insiders insist that steady, if plodding, progress is being made but admit that a solution is still months away at best.

IF THE Government wanted to maximise crime levels, encourage burglary, muggings and a proliferation of violent gangs, it could not have achieved its goal more effectively than with its long-standing policies on drugs. Police picked her up after a brawl in St Sophia’s Cathedral on Wednesday, but realised she was their Most Wanted Deity only when people started kissing her feet. People in the area, who said it was put up about six months ago, added that visitors had come ‘from Germany and all around the world’. ‘You get the excitement that you don’t get going to the gym; it’s the excitement of a night out.’The emphasis at both venues is on entertainment.

Vakula’s mother Solokha, a witch, is pally with the devil and she has a string of aspiring bed-friends who cause great amusement, in the second act, by calling on her in succession, each in turn finding himself thrust into hiding in a coal-sack

The music is really rather good. THE volatile trial of two black men accused of severely beating a white lorry driver in Los Angeles is at the centre of mounting confusion and racial outrage following the departure of two jurors in the middle of deliberations. If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly.

In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. TAXPAYERS now have their first independent arbitrator, Elizabeth Filkin, to resolve grievances with the Inland Revenue But they should not beat too hasty a path to her door.