2014年9月10日 星期三

2014-09-11 U.K. Spotlight


Scotland's fateful choice  Financial Times
The United Kingdom ranks as one of the most successful marriages in history. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have survived ancient hatreds, tribal rivalry and war. Each nation has been enriched by a journey of enlightenment, empire, shared ...


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  BBC News   
Ebola: How bad can it get?  BBC News
This isn't just the worst single Ebola outbreak in history, it has now killed more than all the others combined. Healthcare workers are visibly struggling, the response to the outbreak has been damned as "lethally inadequate" and the situation is showing signs ...


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When America leads, the world is a safer place  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Tuesday's major Washington Post-ABC News poll was one of the most significant surveys of public opinion released in the United States this year. It revealed a pronounced shift in thinking on America's role in the world, which for a number of years had been ...


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  The Guardian   
United front: breasts without the airbrush  The Guardian
The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth's pictures of 100 women's breasts isn't the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. "We see images of breasts ...


   


How a Yes would make enemies and alienate peoples  Financial Times
The small minority of British people who live in Scotland have been receiving an unnatural degree of attention this past week from the more than 90 per cent who do not. For months we have been comforted by opinion polls pointing to a convincing victory for ...


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Britain's top 20 best places to raise a family  Telegraph.co.uk
Where best to raise a family? It is a subject on which every parent in the land has a view. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have plumped for Norfolk. They have a country retreat there, Anmer Hall, in which Prince George and the expected sibling will ...


   

  BBC News   
Victorian Strangeness  BBC News
"The German lady took an active part in the melee," said the Herald, "but decamped upon the arrival of PCs Greenway and Hunt, who prevented further bloodshed and arrested the prisoners." Crowe and Tibbett were jailed for a month. There was no word on ...


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Circus laughter that makes Brazilians cry  Financial Times
Switching on the television the other night, I was expecting one of the sweeping telenovelas that dominate Brazil's primetime airwaves. Instead I encountered Tiririca, who is running for a second term in Congress in October's elections.

   

  The Guardian (blog)   
Brian Clough was charming, disarming and had his own set of rules  The Guardian (blog)
Brian Clough leads Nottingham Forest out at Wembley for the 1989 Littlewoods Cup final. Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty Images. The last time I saw Brian Clough in the flesh – and sadly there were not enough of those occasions in a work capacity – he went ...


   

  BBC Sport   
Piri Weepu: London Welsh turn to All Blacks World Cup 'saviour'  BBC Sport
Soon after losing his place in the All Blacks squad last year, their unofficial World Cup saviour Piri Weepu tweeted: "Down but not out… As always..." Piri Weepu poster campaign. All Blacks fans reproduced the famous Second World War poster, following ...


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