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- EFE.- Pontevedra.-Un hombre de 67 años ha estrangulado a su mujer, de 61, en la localidad de Cangas (Pontevedra), según han informado fuentes de la investigación. El suceso se ha producido sobre las nueve y media de la mañana en el domicilio de la pareja. El presunto agresor, cuyas iniciales son A. |
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Family Fun (Feb 01 2008 03:18 GMT) - story links: Family Fun |
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- story links: Family Fun Center |
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- story links: Family Fun Games |
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- story links: Family Fun Magazine |
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- story links: Family Fun Days |
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- FORT WORTH, Texas (PRNewswire-FirstCall) Lt. Col. James "Flipper" Kromberg of the U. |
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- They found Mary Jane Kelly lying on her bed, in the dingy room she rented in Miller's Court, off Dorset Street in Spitalfields. She was about 25 years old, a colleen from County Limerick, 'possessed of considerable attractions'. Widowed young, she had turned, like thousands of others in late Victorian London, to prostitution. One of her clients had taken her for a spree to Paris, and she had started to call herself Marie Jeanette. She was also nicknamed Ginger. |
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- Does Britain need a written constitution? Of course it does, which is why, as Anthony King points out at the start of this readable and illuminating book, it has one already. Whatever its detractors might think, Britain is not some folkloric society governed according to immemorial custom on the nod and the wink of the people in the know. Most of the rules of modern British political life, from the 1701 Act of Settlement on, are set down in statutes, which in total run to many hundreds of pages and cover everything from the maximum duration of Parliaments to the relationship between British and EU law. Not everything is written down - there are no statutes determining the role of the prime minister or fixing the responsibilities of cabinet government - but then again, no constitution has everything written down. |
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- Régis Debray has led the fullest of lives, embroiled in ideology, controversy and action. As a young man at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he sat at the feet of Louis Althusser; he trained in the use of assault weapons with Fidel Castro; he trod the thankless Bolivian forests with Che Guevara and served nearly four years in jail for his trouble. In Chile he was taken up by Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda. |
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- What an enticing prospect: A-Z elucidation, or at least the admission in print that most of life's pressing questions are never answered. But won't all the entries begin with 'W'? Where has youth gone? Why dost thou lash that whore? |
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- The 1611 King James Authorised Version of the Book of Psalms - and of course of the entire Bible - is so deep in the English language that we no longer know when we are repeating its phrases. Inextricable from the beliefs and practices of its faithful for four hundred years, it has been transformed from the translation of a holy book into a holy book itself. Poets, however, know from experience that there are no definitive texts, and over the centuries an assembly of angels has been singing the Psalms in its own way: Wyatt, Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan, Smart, Clare, Hopkins and Kipling among them. Some were setting lyrics to new tunes; |
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- I spent the most formative time of my life, the years 1931-33, as a Gymnasiast and would-be Communist militant, in the dying Weimar Republic. Last autumn I was asked to recall that time in an online German interview under the title 'Ich bin ein Reiseführer in die Geschichte' ('I am a travel guide to history'). Some weeks later, at the annual dinner of the survivors of the school I went to when I came to Britain, the no longer extant St Marylebone Grammar School, I tried to explain the reactions of a 15-year-old suddenly translated to this country in 1933. 'Imagine yourselves,' I told my fellow Old Philologians, 'as a newspaper correspondent based in Manhattan and transferred by your editor to Omaha, Nebraska. That's how I felt when I came to England after almost two years in the unbelievably exciting, sophisticated, intellectually and politically explosive Berlin of the Weimar Republic. |
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- Most aesthetic concepts are theological ones in disguise. The Romantics saw works of art as mysteriously autonomous, conjuring themselves up from their own unfathomable depths. They were self-originating, self-determining, carrying their ends and raisons d'être within themselves. As such, art was a secular version of the Almighty. Both God and art belonged to that rare category of objects which existed entirely for their own sake, free of the vulgar taint of utility. |
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- Publishing an anthology of blogs in book form makes about as much sense as broadcasting Singin' in the Rain on the wireless |
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- In the film moderately scrutable orientals play inscrutable orientals pretending to be inscrutable orientals |
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- Balzac is named several times in The Maias. Two characters are said to have a 'Balzacian eye', and Balzac is elsewhere called a 'prodigy of observational powers'. A love nest is called the Villa Balzac, an intricate, critical irony because the owner of the house is a 'great fantasist' far from fully aware of what he is doing when he adopts the great realist as his 'patron saint'. The book itself, I should say, is subtitled 'Episodes from Romantic Life', so these touches are important. 'Romantic' in this context has all kinds of associations, and its near-synonyms could include 'poetic', 'stylish', 'idealistic', 'liberal', 'deluded'. |
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Letters (Feb 01 2008 03:18 GMT) - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 3 |
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- Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 3 |
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- story links: Internet Marketing |
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- story links: Internet Marketing Solutions |
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- story links: Internet Marketing Services |
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- story links: Internet Marketing Tips |
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- story links: Internet Marketing Consulting |
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- story links: Money Management |
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- story links: Money Saving |
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- story links: Registered Investment Advisor |
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- story links: Money Saving Tips |
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- story links: Personal Money Management |
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Travel (Feb 01 2008 03:18 GMT) - story links: Travel |
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Vacation (Feb 01 2008 03:18 GMT) - story links: Vacation |
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- story links: Reservations |
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