The Independent (London, England) back issues from July 2008:
Classical
Jul 01, 2008; ... ALFRED BRENDEL Royal Festival Hall LONDON **** So farewell, then ... the classical music world has witnessed thelast solo performance by a Titan. Alfred Brendel, who has commandedthe field in Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert since his emergence inthe Sixties, chose works by those three ...
Theatre
Jul 01, 2008; ... TORN Arcola LONDON *** Femi Oguns' debut play, in which he also stars, is a contemporaryRomeo and Juliet-type drama of young love fighting to survive in aworld of corrosive enmities. The twist is that both the familieshere are black. South Londoners David and Natasha are ...
The Ten Best Children's audio books
Jul 01, 2008; ... 1 Meltdown Robert Rigby/Andy McNab Deadly drugs, gangland hideouts and criminal masterminds may notsound suitable for children, but this is an updated Boy's Ownadventure that younger teens - and dads - will love. Narrated by Daniel Weyman; 14.99 2 Tunnels Roderick ...
Book Now
Jul 01, 2008 ... Wireless Festival If you missed Morrissey on his last tour, which was cancelledhalfway through due to illness, you can catch him on his onlyfestival performance at this four-day event for non-campers. Otherheadliners include Fatboy Slim, Beck, Hot Chip, Mark Ronson and ...
Poignant but cliched study of how it feels to be an outsider
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Tuesday Book THE KONKANS By Tony D'Souza PORTOBELLO, Pounds 10.99 Order forPounds 9.89 (free p&p) on 08700 798 897 The Konkans, as the narrator of Tony D'Souza's second novel tellsus nearly two-thirds of the way into the book, are a tiny Catholicpeople who live on the ...
Pop
Jul 01, 2008; ... RODRIGO Y GABRIELA The Roundhouse LONDON **** "It's great to see you in this super-cool venue," says GabrielaQuintero, one half of the Mexican semi-acoustic duo, Rodrigo YGabriela, admiring the whooping crowd standing between the wrought-iron columns of this 19th-century steam ...
The director's take on women and families
Jul 01, 2008; ... Theatre THE PETER HALL COMPANY 2008 Theatre Royal BATH The theatre, opera and film director Sir Peter Hall was only 29years old when he founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960.Since then he has been director of the National Theatre and artisticdirector of Glyndebourne ...
A show worth the 30-year wait
Jul 01, 2008; ... World music ETHIOPIQUES Barbican LONDON **** It seems unreal that the musicians on the magical Ethiopiquesrecords are about to step onstage. Brought to the mainstream by thesoundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, and a compilation thatwas last year's best album, Francis ...
Mainmovers
Jul 01, 2008 ... ASOS 354p (up 27p, 8.26 per cent) Positive final results. Grainger 215p (up 13.25p, 6.57 per cent) Reguis says it is not inposition to approach company. Cobham 197.8p (up 11.4p, 6.12 per cent) Cheered by BAE Systems-VT surface fleet joint venture. HMV 129.5p (up 6.25p, ...
Yell feels the pain as broker slashes target price
Jul 01, 2008; ... MARKET REPORT The directories group Yell hit a low of 66p yesterday after JPMorgan slashed its target price for the stock by almost 82 per centto 92p from 510p. "We see risk of downward pressure continuing," the broker said,citing the deteriorating macro environment in Spain, ...
1994 FRIDAY 1 JULY
Jul 01, 2008 ... Arafat returns to Gaza After 27 years in exile, Yasser Arafat, leader of the ...
MARGARET KITCHIN
Jul 01, 2008; ... Concert pianist and champion of modern British composers The pianist Margaret Kitchin was a child prodigy who later becamea specialist in modern music. While she made few recordings, she wasa regular for more than 20 years for this repertoire with the BBC,where she warmly ...
BRUCE LESTER
Jul 01, 2008; ... Dapper actor in Forties Hollywood The British actor Bruce Lester changed his name from Lister whenhe went to Hollywood. There, in contrast to his earlier Britishfilms, which were mainly "quota quickies", he appeared in suchprestigious productions as The Letter (1940), starring ...
ZDENEK URBANEK
Jul 01, 2008; ... Writer and friend of Vaclav Havel Zdenek Urbnek was a Czech writer and translator of Englishliterature with a wide following at home and many friends abroad. Hewas a close friend of Vclav Havel, the playwright and formerpresident, who paid tribute to him last week: "Zdenek Urbnek ...
NEWS IN BRIEF
Jul 01, 2008 ... BUSINESS ACCOLADE Dr Jane Henry of the Open University Business School has beennamed as one of the UK's top university teachers. Henry, who is bestknown for her work on teaching creativity in management, is one of50 teachers to receive a 10,000 award in the Higher ...
The skin i'm in
Jul 01, 2008; ... Its sufferers have been stigmatised for centuries - and there'sstill no cure. Guy Kennaway describes a lifetime's battle withpsoriasis I was first stricken with psoriasis, the illness that makes youshed flakes of skin, in my twenties, when I was at university inEdinburgh. Its ...
Socially motivated students need support from universities if they are to change the world
Jul 01, 2008; ... OPEN VIEW Rodolfo Stavenhagen, writing last month in the European Journalof Education, draws attention to the task of education today. "Intoday's globalised and interconnected world," he says, "livingtogether peacefully has become a moral, social and politicalimperative on which ...
Learning by iTunes comes to the UK
Jul 01, 2008 ... The OU is making course material available on Apple's downloadsite Apple's iTunes Store has built its reputation on music downloads,but it could be about to usher in a new era of learning on the move.In the not-too-distant future, when you see someone transfixed totheir iPod, ...
BILL FINEGAN
Jul 01, 2008; ... Arranger of 'Little Brown Jug' Bill Finegan was probably the finest ever arranger in the popularmusic field and was snapped up to work for two of the richestbandleaders, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. "Glenn Miller was not anice guy," said Finegan. "I didn't like the way he treated ...
Chess
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess meeting is now well in train, withthe third round today following the first of two rest days onMonday. When battle got under way on Saturday, the first-round action wassomewhat quiet, with all four games drawn before move 40. Certainly,the intentions ...
You write the reviews
Jul 01, 2008; ... IF HITLER HAD BEEN A HIPPY HOW HAPPY WOULD WE BE White CubeMason's Yard LONDON ***** This exhibition of work by Jake and Dinos Chapman is by far themost impressive art show in town at the moment. On the ground floorof the White Cube gallery in Mason's Yard in St James's there are ...
It could be a real killer on this evidence
Jul 01, 2008; ... Last Night's TV CRIMINAL JUSTICE BBC1 Apparently, some lawyers have already complained about the waythey are portrayed in Criminal Justice, and going by the firstepisode, it's certainly not an advert for the profession. Banged upin a police cell for a murder that he almost ...
Walk this way
Jul 01, 2008; ... MBT shoes claim to tone your body, improve posture and ease backpain - and this summer they're everywhere. Do they actually work?Esther Walker reports MBT trainers seem like an unlikely item of footwear to catch theimagination of the young and trendy. With their thick, curved ...
Could sex save your life?
Jul 01, 2008; ... Making love doesn't just help you feel good. It also burnscalories, boosts your immune system - and can even reduce the riskof cancer. By Dan Roberts IMPROVES SELF-ESTEEM AND MENTAL HEALTH Boosting self-esteem was one of the 237 reasons people have sex,according to a study ...
Keeping in shape does the trick for beautiful Spaniards
Jul 01, 2008; ... Spain became champions of Europe partly because they refused totinker with their formation, regardless of the players available,writes Sam Wallace What would Euro 2008 have been like with England in it? It is nota question many have troubled themselves with amid the ...
Cecil and O'Brien in Eclipse encounter
Jul 01, 2008; ... Mount Nelson, trained by Aidan O'Brien, and Henry Cecil's chargePhoenix Tower are vying for favouritism for the next pitstop on theGroup One circuit, the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday. Twelvewere declared at yesterday's penultimate stage for the 10-furlongcontest. Both ...
Aragones won over lovers of the game with sweet blend of style and discipline
Jul 01, 2008; ... Those who say Spain is not a country but a state of various mindsand a series of dramatic gestures must now admit there is nothingintangible about their football team - or the glorious way they havemade themselves champions of Europe these last few weeks. The Cries of Viva Espana ...
Looker an attractive buy for Biggs the builder
Jul 01, 2008; ... Away from the high-rolling mainstream of Group One wins andpriceless pedigrees, the rewards for perspicacity can, relatively,be as sweet. A week today, the value of one man's good judgement -backed up by a little luck - will be tested under the hammer in aNewmarket auction ...
RUSSIA'S NEW REVOLUTION
Jul 01, 2008; ... Bankers were thought to be facing tough times after the creditcrunch. But in Moscow, where business is booming, Brits are beingattracted by soaring salaries. By Jason Corcoran and Nick Clark Business Analysis It has been a very good year to be Russian. The national ...
Diminished and discredited
Jul 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE US ELECTIONS In theory, Barack Obama should have been Bill Clinton's idealcandidate for US President. Young, bright, ambitious and bold, withan unerring popular touch, Mr Obama has so much in common with theformer President. And, even 16 years apart, in such ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Jul 01, 2008 ... 'It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who sopositively assert that this or that ...
The right medicine, but far too mild a dose
Jul 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE There are some decent ideas in Lord Darzi's long-awaited reporton reforming the National Health Service. The proposal to shiftminor surgery operation out of hospitals and into "polyclinics"makes sense; so does the idea of encouraging ...
Meet the new Obama, master of the U-turn
Jul 01, 2008; ... "I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics theless nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for rank andfame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerablemainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience." Thus spake Barack Obama. These words ...
What are eco-towns, and how green are they in reality?
Jul 01, 2008; ... The big question Why are we asking this now? Because yesterday the Government closed its consultation processon 15 potential eco-towns that could be sited across Britain, whileprotesters angry at the whole idea demonstrated outside Parliament. So what are ...
Morkel and Nel serve ominous reminder of tourists' potent pace
Jul 01, 2008; ... S AFRICA 515-3dec & 56-1 SOMERSET 249 If practice makes perfect then South Africa could not have had amore ideal start to their tour. On the traditional batsman's paradise of the Taunton square whereJacques Kallis and Hashin Amla scored big hundreds on the first dayof this ...
Mustard adds bite to leave Durham on top
Jul 01, 2008; ... YORKSHIRE 184 & 88-2 DURHAM 347 You may have read in these pages yesterday that the differentrhythms of Championship cricket might require batsmen to make adifficult adjustment after three weeks amid the frenzy of Twenty20,a theory which appeared to be borne out as Yorkshire were ...
The perilous joys of middle-aged sex
Jul 01, 2008; ... Do you remember herpes? You'll need to be of a certain age toconjure the particular memory I have in mind, which is of the spasmof sexual anxiety that went round when the disease first really madeit into the public consciousness, after the incidence of infectionsleapt in America. Yikes, ...
Pendragon axes 500 jobs and warns of slump in sales
Jul 01, 2008; ... A huge drop in sales has forced Pendragon to cut 500 jobs and thecountry's largest car dealer said profits for the rest of this year"were difficult to predict" as inflation, particularly on the priceof fuel, deprives buyers of the cash for big-ticket purchases. Sales of new cars to ...
The English language is a slippery, deceptive thing
Jul 01, 2008; ... Miles Kington Remembered 15 MARCH 2004 In the days when Communism was flourishing, there used to becountries that gloried in names like "The People's DemocraticRepublic of Outer Manganesia". We loved this in the West, because itgave us great pleasure to point out that none ...
Jankovic perishes in Court 18 graveyard
Jul 01, 2008; ... It was time for Jelena Jankovic to go home after she had raidedthe last remnants of her medicine cabinet. To the vast roll ofbandages that had supported her left knee through the third round,where she jarred it, were added anti-inflammatories and an elaboratesticking plaster pattern ...
Tokyo
Jul 01, 2008 ... WORLD MARKETS The Nikkei fell 0.5 per cent to book its worst first half since1995, though it gained about 8 per cent this quarter, recoveringabout half of what it lost since a year-low hit in ...
Sharply rising coal price may undermine Drax
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE INVESTMENT COLUMN Our view: Hold for now Share price: 739p (+2.5p) If the price a company can get for what it produces increasesfaster than the price of its costs, it makes money. That simpleequation has helped the coal power station operator Drax in recentmonths: ...
'I'd like the country to feel more united'
Jul 01, 2008; ... The 5-minute Interview Dame Kelly Holmes Athlete Holmes, 38, won gold in the 1,500m and 800m at the 2004 Olympics.She was made a Dame in 2005. She has taken up a role as Niveaambassador for Cancer Research UK's Race for Life. If I weren't talking to you right ...
France's opportunity
Jul 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE EUROPEAN UNION France takes over the EU Presidency from Slovenia today, but itis a very different presidency, in a very different European mood,from the one its ebullient president had prepared for. Franceexpected to preside over a European Union in which ...
Huddlestone agrees new deal at Spurs
Jul 01, 2008 ... SUMMER SALES Transfer news *TOTTENHAM Midfielder Tom Huddlestone has signed a new five-yearcontract at White Hart Lane. The 21-year-old, signed from Derby for2.5m three years ago, and called up by England for the recentfriendlies against the USA and Trinidad & Tobago, made ...
Student dies in holiday hotel fall
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *A British student has died after falling out of a hotel windowin Majorca. Mark Day, 20, was staying at the Majorca Beach Hotel inMagaluf. According to newspaper reports, Mr Day, a student at ...
Number of prisoners on early release scheme soars
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *Nearly 29,000 criminals have been freed from jail early in thefirst 11 months of an emergency scheme to beat prison overcrowding.Figures issued by the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, showed therewere 2,532 offenders freed up to 18 days early in May, bringing ...
Libel claim over Facebook entries
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *A man whose personal details were "laid bare" in fake entries onthe Facebook social networking website has launched an unprecedentedHigh Court damages action. Mathew Firsht is ...
New York
Jul 01, 2008 ... WORLD MARKETS Record crude oil prices lifted energy shares on the final tradingday of the second quarter, offsetting a financial sector sell-off onfears of further credit losses. But the ...
*YESTERDAY'S COMPLETED MOVES
Jul 01, 2008 ... SUMMER SALES Transfer news Deco (Barcelona) to Chelsea 8m Martin Albrechtsen (West Brom) to Derby Free Aaron Brown (Gillingham) to Lincoln City Free Stephen Dawson (Mansfield) to Bury Free Burton O'Brien (Sheffield Wed) to Falkrik ...
Digard angry at stalling PSG
Jul 01, 2008 ... SUMMER SALES Transfer news *MIDDLESBROUGH The club are having to be patient in their pursuitof Didier Digard. The 21-year-old has rounded on his club Paris St-Germain for stalling over a 5m (4m) deal which was arranged afortnight ago. Digard says the stumbling block is PSG's ...
Hong Kong
Jul 01, 2008 ... WORLD MARKETS Stocks rose modestly as investors remained skittish after crudeoil prices hit another record high. The Hang Seng added 59.7, ornearly 0.3 per cent, to 22,102, with upstream oil ...
Europe
Jul 01, 2008 ... WORLD MARKETS Shares rose, lifted by robust energy stocks, but ended the monthwith a 10 per cent decline as a surge in crude prices underscoredconcerns over inflation. The FTSEurofirst ...
Ole, Espana! (But we're still a divided country ...)
Jul 01, 2008; ... In the Spain team that was crowned European champions on Sundaynight, only two men came from Real Madrid - the team favoured by theFranco regime and for years almost the sole provider ofrepresentatives for the national side. Barcelona - that emblem ofCatalan nationalism - provided three ...
The abiding lesson of the NHS: people still look to the state in their hour of need
Jul 01, 2008; ... Like an ageing rock star selling out stadiums around the world,the NHS continues to transcend the apparent fashion of our times.Long ago, the political and media establishment turned its back onmost services that are publicly owned. Fearful ministers hand themover to anyone that wants ...
Major credit insurer predicts 20% rise in firms going bust
Jul 01, 2008; ... The credit insurance giant Euler Hermes has upgraded by more than10 per cent its forecast for the number of UK companies that willhit the buffers this year. Fabrice Desnos, its UK chief executive, said it forecasts thatthere will be about 23,400 corporate insolvencies across all ...
Man rescued from rubbish crusher
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *A man had a lucky escape yesterday after falling asleep in askip in Birmingham and finding himself in the back of rubbish lorrythat was about to ...
Mothers warned over junk food
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers who live on junk food could becondemning their children to lifelong obesity and ill-health. Astudy in The Journal of Physiology suggests a mother's poor diet ...
Woman killed in 999 crash
Jul 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF *A woman died and her 10-year-old daughter was seriously injuredafter a fire engine collided with a car, police said yesterday. South Yorkshire Police said the incident happened in ...
Murdered teenager's sister begs for an end to killings
Jul 01, 2008; ... The sister of Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old stabbed to death ashe celebrated the end of his GCSEs, made a heart-rending pleayesterday for a halt to the epidemic of knife crime. Visibly distraught, the actress Brooke Kinsella pleaded: "Nowtruly is the time to stand up and put an end ...
Murray hits bum note but he's no match for Jelena
Jul 01, 2008; ... Wimbledon Diary *Jelena "sicknote" Jankovic was at it again yesterday, callingthe trainer during play, as did her opponent, Tamarine Tanasugarn,in an admirable bout of "I'm more of a crock than you". The Diaryneeds no better reason to count down five of our favourite ...
Dots cut a dash for a century
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Nadal dispels injury fear after cruise
Jul 01, 2008; ... Rafael Nadal dismissed concerns about his fitness last nightafter he had required a medical time-out in his easy fourth-roundwin over Mikhail Youzhny, and turned his thoughts to champagne. TheSpanish beefcake, runner-up here the past two years to RogerFederer, made short work of his ...
Body to be dug up to solve mystery of film-maker's killing
Jul 01, 2008; ... The body of a French woman who was murdered in Ireland 12 yearsago is to be lifted from its grave in a village cemetery in south-west France today. The remains of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, is to be subjectedto advanced forms of DNA testing, which did not exist at the time ...
India in drive for renewable fuel
Jul 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF *DELHI India's Prime Minister has announced a plan to combatglobal warming by focusing on renewable energy but stood by arefusal ...