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Many people consider Butterbean a freak in an ugly sporting business but he likes to think about himself as boxing’s naked servant
Aug. 27 | Many people consider Butterbean a freak in an ugly sporting business, but he likes to think about himself as boxing’s naked servant. Butterbean has so far fought in 32 of America’s 50 states and 61 of his 67 fights have been shown on television....
As the chief archivist at the BBC said to me when I first joined You do understand don’t you the BBC has been
Aug. 27 | As the chief archivist at the BBC said to me when I first joined, “You do understand, don’t you, the BBC has been accused of dumbing down from the day Reith invented it.”If you rest on your laurels, if you sit back and just let the profits...
When he played against Australia in the autumn he broke his hand in the first
Aug. 27 | When he played against Australia in the autumn he broke his hand in the first five minutes, but stayed on for the whole game, so he has demonstrated that he is a tough character.”Taylor’s broken hand consigned him to the sidelines for 10 weeks...
Underneath to help me remember the order I’d written dead leg pub fight
Aug. 27 | Underneath, to help me remember the order, I’d written “dead leg pub fight stabbing death”.Near the theatre, I drove up the wrong road, so I turned around At which point, a policeman flashed his car lights at me. He came across,...
He was 62
Aug. 27 | He was 62.Bannykov, who headed the Ukrainian Soccer Federation (FFU) in 1991–96 and served as its vice president since 1996, died yesterday following a long disease, the FFU said.Bannykov played for the then–Soviet Dynamo Kiev in 1961–69...
Her parents Eddie and Eileen Weston said she suffered a suspected seizure and complained of blackouts and a headache after she started
Aug. 27 | Her parents, Eddie and Eileen Weston, said she suffered a suspected seizure and complained of blackouts and a headache after she started taking Zyban.The inquest in Hertford was told there had been 35 deaths after adverse reactions to the drug. Many were...
I knew no one who had ever been to university and if I ever came across people with letters after their name
Aug. 25 | I knew no one who had ever been to university, and if I ever came across people with “letters after their name”, in a book or on the television, I assumed that these people must be as intelligent as Zeus himself.I didn’t even know what...
Labour will not allow elite universities to charge top-up tuition fees after the next general election David Blunkett the
Aug. 25 | Labour will not allow elite universities to charge “top-up” tuition fees after the next general election, David Blunkett, the Secretary of State for Education said yesterday. Mr Blunkett’s announcement in the Commons, which comes after...
By 2010 I want to achieve a university participation rate of over 50 per cent among the under-30s
Aug. 25 | By 2010, I want to achieve a university participation rate of over 50 per cent among the under-30s. At present, whereas nearly three-quarters of the children of professional parents go to university, barely one in six of children of parents in manual...
