The Independent (London, England) back issues from August 2008:
Barry refuses to give up on move
Aug 01, 2008; ... Gareth Barry remains hopeful enough of a move from Aston Villa toLiverpool to hold off on demanding a transfer for now, though theextraordinary events of Tuesday and Wednesday appear to leave thepossibility of an agreement between the two clubs further away thanever. Barry joined ...
Bywater lined up as Gomes' understudy
Aug 01, 2008 ... SUMMER SALES Transfer news and managerial manoeuvres *TOTTENHAM Paul Jewell, the Derby County manager, has revealedthat goalkeeper Stephen Bywater (below) is close to signing forSpurs. The 27-year-old former West Ham keeper, who joined Derby twoyears ago, is expected to move to ...
*YESTERDAY'S COMPLETED MOVES
Aug 01, 2008 ... SUMMER SALES Transfer news and managerial manoeuvres David Bentley (Blackburn Rovers) to Tottenham 17m Madjid Bougherra (Charlton) to Rangers 2.5m Nicky Maynard (Crewe) to Bristol City 2.25m David ...
The fine art of global trade
Aug 01, 2008; ... VERMEER'S HAT By Timothy Brook profile Pounds 18.99 (282pp)Pounds 17.09 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Tmothy Brook is a Canadian historian of China who has taken upthe Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at Oxford. His many publicationsrange widely across the last half dozen centuries ...
American dreamers wake up in hell
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE FORSAKEN By Tim Tzouliadis little, brown Pounds 20 (472pp)Pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 One of the depressing aspects of contemporary Russia is theadulation accorded by many Russians to Joseph Stalin. In TheForsaken, Tim Tzouliadis has not only written a particularly ...
Some immodest proposals
Aug 01, 2008; ... BOOK OF THE WEEK NOT IN MY NAME By Julie Burchill & Chas Newkey-Burden VIRGIN Pounds 12.99 (193pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870079 8897 Here she goes again. This time she has a sidekick, a journalistcalled Chas Newkey-Burden. Their contributions in this "compendiumof ...
BOOK OF A LIFETIME
Aug 01, 2008; ... EVERYMAN By Philip Roth Philip Roth's Everyman draws on the "virtuous journey" of the15th-century allegory in which God summons Death, his messenger, togo to Everyman and bid him come to heaven to be judged. This is awise book which will unsettle you. Are you ready for this book? ...
PICK OF THE PICTURE BOOKS
Aug 01, 2008 ... Though she doesn't look as though she's had many Chinesetakeaways, BBC's newest celebrity chef produces some pretty tastyversions of late night favourites in her latest book. Chinese FoodMade Easy, by Ching-He Huang (HarperCollins, 16.99) explains howfood is "the cultural heart and soul ...
PAPERBACKS
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE TAXI QUEUE By Janet Davey VINTAGE 7.99 (202pp) On a snowy night in January two strangers decide to share a taxioutside Paddington Station. Richard is in his mid-forties, marriedwith two small children. Abe is young, attractive and gay. When thecab arrives at Richard's front ...
Young, gifted and whyte: life in Great Ambossa
Aug 01, 2008; ... BLONDE ROOTS By Bernardine Evaristo HAMISH HAMILTON Pounds 17.99(272pp) Pounds 16.19 (free History is subjective. With fact as its backbone, itsrelationship to fiction is that of the stern and virtuous great auntto a muddy kid. Africans were enslaved by Europeans for 400 ...
History of a fishy business
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE LAST FISH TALE By Mark Kurlansky JONATHAN CAPE Pounds 16.99(268pp) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Having written bestsellers on cod, oysters and salt, Mark Kurlan-sky now turns to the people who make a living from the sea. Hebegins his book-length love letter to ...
An old-fashioned romance
Aug 01, 2008; ... POPPYLAND By Raffaella Barker HEADLINE Pounds 12.99 (343pp)Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Raffaella Barker is best known for engaging domestic dramas setin the Norfolk countryside. Her eighth novel, named after a stretchof coast romanticised by the Victorians, is a ...
COVER STORIES
Aug 01, 2008 ... At the first Literary Salon at Shoreditch House, London, onTuesday, Jenny Colgan revealed that she is working on a "secretbook" that she will release under a pseudonym in September. "It'sfor all those people who loved books set in boarding schools as kidsand wonder why nobody writes them ...
A short story from debut to doom
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE WEEK IN BOOKSA novelist I know predicts that, in the future, all novels willbe first novels. He has a case. In the age of digital data, anywriter's track-record at the tills can hang around their shoulderslike an albatross (or an accountant). When marketing rules, and ...
From pitch to page
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Olympics will bring a marathon of words as well as deeds.Boyd Tonkin looks at the long partnership of writing and sport It's 11 December 1821: a brisk and sunny winter's day. Around theopen ring near Hungerford "the crowd was very great ... withstreamers flying and music ...
ESTELLE SINGER
Aug 01, 2008; ... CULTURAL LIFE Music I am so excited that I am short-listed for the Mercury Prize thisyear. It means people actually like my album, Shine, past the single"American Boy". I would say my greatest musical influences have beenElla Fitzgerald and Mary J Blige. Recently I have been ...
Why the Fringe is rocking
Aug 01, 2008; ... "It always struck me as strange that there wasn't a contemporarymusic strand during the Edinburgh Festival," Dave Corbett says. Itwas after he moved north of the border 12 years ago to work for DFConcerts, the Scots music promoters who run T in the Park, thatCorbett set about remedying ...
Something funny going on
Aug 01, 2008; ... Comedians now rival pop stars in the celebrity firmament. Andthis year's crop will be the hottest tickets at the EdinburghFringe. The Edinburgh Fringe is the Woodstock of comedy - and it offersthe greatest prize there is for an art form that has less immediacythan the hit-driven ...
'Casablanca' (1942)
Aug 01, 2008; ... STORY OF THE SCENE It had actually debuted more than a decade earlier. Written byNew Jersey composer Herman Hupfeld for the stage revue Everybody'sWelcome in 1931, the song "As Time Goes By" became one of the mostfamous songs in the movies - even if Sam didn't actually "play it" ...
OBSERVATIONS
Aug 01, 2008 ... The view from the drum kit When I read the news that a performing drummer is as fit as apremiership footballer, I thought about that age old cliche. It's apopular misconception that dealing with the rhythmic aspects of asong rather than the melody and harmony is a lot easier to get ...
GIRL IN A BLUE DRESS (c.1914) Gwen John National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Aug 01, 2008; ... GREAT WORKS There are stories about people being turned into pictures.Whether it's Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" or Poe's "The OvalPortrait", the basic idea is that becoming a picture can give youimmortality - at the cost of your life. In a picture you'reeternally preserved from ...
Son of a gun
Aug 01, 2008; ... Benjamin Darvill has gone from Canada's Crash Test Dummies to acrotchety, antsy, London-based solo blues act. Nick Hasted found himin a graveyard "My advice to you," Benjamin Darvill says, with something closeto menace, "is, if you want to test if something's genuine, poke it.Or ...
NEW RELEASES
Aug 01, 2008; ... RANDY NEWMAN Harps and Angels Nonesuch ***** Since 1999's Bad Love, Randy Newman has busied himself revisitingformer glories with the first instalment of The Randy NewmanSongbook and, at the 17th nomination, finally acquiring the AcademyAward he so richly deserved, for "If I ...
ALSO SHOWING
Aug 01, 2008; ... MAN ON WIRE (12A) James Marsh **** Meet Philippe Petit, the man who put the fun into funambulism.James Marsh's engrossing documentary charts the Frenchman'saudacious attempt, in August 1974, to walk a tightrope between theTwin Towers of the World Trade Center. Petit, who had ...
Is this really the biggest star in Hollywood?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Vince Vaughn, top of a new Hollywood pay league? Tom Cruise nearthe bottom? It's little wonder that filmgoers are puzzled. Thenumbers simply don't add up, says Kaleem Aftab If you want to make money in Hollywood, employ Vince Vaughn.That's the conclusion arrived at in a survey of ...
Many unhappy returns
Aug 01, 2008; ... FILMS OF THE WEEK THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (15) ChrisCarter (104 mins) ** STARRING Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny THELOVE GURU (12A) Marco Schnabel (88 mins) * STARRING Mike Myers,Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake Ten years on from the first movie, and six years since the ...
PROFESSOR ANN LAMBTON
Aug 01, 2008; ... Persianist unrivalled in the breadth of her scholarship whoseassociation with Soas was long and illustriousAMONG THE litany of failures enumerated by James Bill in TheEagle and the Lion: the tragedy of American-Iranian relations (1988)was the fact that only 10 per cent of ...
How to be word perfect
Aug 01, 2008; ... You can tell a lot about a band by their album sleeves - nevermind the pictures, it's all in the typeface. Rob Sharp translates BLOC PARTY A WEEKEND IN THE CITY Typeface: Gill Sans Released last year, this was indie outfit Bloc Party's secondalbum. As bassist Gordon ...
1774 MONDAY 1 AUGUST
Aug 01, 2008 ... Oxygen discovered The chemist Joseph Priestley conducted an experiment using amagnifying glass to ...
HAL DIXON
Aug 01, 2008; ... Cambridge biochemist HAL DIXON was a biochemist, a Life Fellow of King's College,Cambridge, who was cleverer than most of his colleagues,enthusiastic and energetic, but who never achieved the heights ofscientific success that his abilities merited. But he was awonderful ...
JOHN NORMAN
Aug 01, 2008; ... Producer who filmed Sobers' sixes THE CRICKETING world owes a huge debt to John Norman for hisdedication to duty 40 years ago. For, despite having been told bythe producers of Grandstand to shut down the cameras at theGlamorgan v Nottinghamshire county championship cricket match ...
Chess
Aug 01, 2008; ... Lenier Dominguez remained on course to win the Biel ChessFestival on Wednesday after a bruising battle with the favouriteMagnus Carlsen finally ended peacefully. As you can see below, Dominguez had real winning chances at onestage, but Carlsen was able to defend himself. Even so, ...
Gazette
Aug 01, 2008 ... BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS Birthdays Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University,52; Mr Derek Birdsall, graphic designer, 74; Chuck D, rapper, 48;Miss Janet Gough, former High Mistress, St Paul's Girls' School, 68;Mr Raymond Leppard, harpsichordist and ...
Born on the right side of the track
Aug 01, 2008; ... Last Night's TV COLIN JACKSON: THE MAKING OF ME BBC1 ROGUERESTAURANTS BBC1 Some people, if they had a tendency to go around claiming to havebeen "born special", would come over like messianic lunatics. ColinJackson, the gently attractive former hurdler, clearly held thisbelief ...
You write the reviews
Aug 01, 2008; ... HADRIAN: EMPIRE AND CONFLICT British Museum LONDON ***** Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, the second of four majorexhibitions at the British Museum on rulers who shaped the world inwhich we now live, presents us with a problem. What are we to makeof an admirer of Greek culture who, ...
HOLIDAYS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Aug 01, 2008; ... Iraq is trying to lure visitors to the land of Babylon with theslogan 'tourism not terrorism'. There is no shortage of ancientattractions, says Kim Sengupta Iraq's new venture It is a country that has become synonymous with suicide bombingsand sectarian killings, abductions and ...
Five safe breaks in dangerous places
Aug 01, 2008; ... JOHANNESBURG South Africa's biggest city gets a bad rap even from SouthAfrican citizens. I found a welcoming heart full of colour andculture - with the Market Theatre at the heart of a revitalised citycentre. BOGOTA Four kidnappings a day was the norm in the Colombian ...
GODS & MOBSTERS
Aug 01, 2008; ... John Pridmore was an East End 'enforcer' who found God, joined aFranciscan order, and now devotes his life to fighting gang culture.It's little wonder that Hollywood wants to tell his story. By JeromeTaylor Considering he had nearly beaten a man to death, the last thingJohn ...
South Africa wakes up to growing white poor
Aug 01, 2008; ... Townships are used to visits and pledges from politicians. Whatmade special the visit of the man expected to be South Africa's nextpresident to a settlement called Bethlehem was that the populationthere is white and Afrikaans. Most visitors to South Africa know the sprawling black ...
Controversial McCain campaign likens Obama to Paris Hilton
Aug 01, 2008; ... JOHN McCAIN has unleashed a withering television commercialinterweaving clips of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears with footageof Barack Obama addressing 200,000 Germans in Berlin a week ago inan apparent attempt to portray the Illinois senator as a bimbocelebrity with more smile than ...
Don't bother with Ryder Cup, Poulter tells Mahan
Aug 01, 2008; ... *GOLF The greatest warlords always maintained that a combatant shouldgo for the opponent's jugular when they are at their most vulnerableand yesterday Ian Poulter did just that when pressing the spikes onhis size 10s deep into the faltering American Ryder Cup cause. "Ifthey ...
Inkster paints picture of success for Sorenstam
Aug 01, 2008; ... The sentimentalists demanded that a woman on the verge ofretirement should be the star turn at the Ricoh Women's BritishOpen, although, on the first day here yesterday, it was the 48-year-old Juli Inkster rather than 37-year-old Annika Sorenstam soaring upthere on the leader board ....
Ambitions of Bulls and Wolves threatened by injuries
Aug 01, 2008; ... *RUGBY LEAGUE Two Super League clubs with play-off aspirations fear that theyhave seen the last of a key player for this season. Bradford will bewithout their scrum-half and goal-kicker, Paul Deacon, at Harlequinson Sunday following a recurrence of his hamstring injury. The ...
Hodgson quietly clinches the deals as others get lost in transfer sagas
Aug 01, 2008; ... During a summer of protracted moves, the Fulham manager hassigned eight players and counting. Glenn Moore reports on a team-building exercise Cottage gets an extensive makeover While the transfer sagas of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Barry,Frank Lampard, Dimitar Berbatov and ...
*Gil resigns as Brazil's Culture Minister
Aug 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF The musician Gilberto Gil has stepped down as Brazilian CultureMinister, saying he wants to dedicate more time to music and hisfamily. The artist, who revolutionised Brazilian music in theSixties as a founder of the Tropicalism ...
Thaksin's wife is jailed for fraud
Aug 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF *BANGKOK A Thai court has sentenced the wife of former primeminister Thaksin Shinawatra to three years in jail after finding herguilty of tax fraud. Potjaman Shinawatra was ...
Afghan journalist freed by agency
Aug 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF *KABUL Afghanistan's intelligence agency has released an Afghantelevision journalist two days after he was detained for criticisingthe government on air. The political discussion show, ...
Aborigines win control of sea fishing rights
Aug 01, 2008; ... A LANDMARK ruling with the potential to sour relations betweentwo of Australia's most vociferous social groupings - Aborigines andanglers - has awarded control of 7,000km (4,300 miles) of coasttoindigenous communities. The decision by theHigh Court in Canberra gives ...
Bentley gambles on Spurs but loses shirt
Aug 01, 2008; ... DAVID BENTLEY has made no secret of his desire to emulate thecareer of his hero David Beckham and while Tottenham Hotspur's new17m winger may have the matching "DB" initials, he has not securedthe trademark No 7 shirt. Having requested the number when hearrived at Spurs on Wednesday, he ...
Old enemy Diouf hopes to be vital cog in Keane machine
Aug 01, 2008; ... Once when Roy Keane and El Hadji Diouf looked at each other, itwas with menace in their eyes. Competitive, combustible andcontroversial, each recognised something familiar in the other anddid not like it too much. Not until last week, though, did wediscover those glares also included ...
Russia wipes California off the map
Aug 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF *MOSCOW California will no longer exist on the Russian map; thevillage, that is. Russia's north-western region of Nizhny Novgorodhas decided to eliminate California because no one lives there. Thevillage was set up in the 19th century by a Russian landowner as ...
Taiwan cancels nocturnal air drill
Aug 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF *TAIPEI Taiwan's military has cancelled a night-time air drillafter the required blackout caused a public outcry. The military hadplanned to hold the drill in Taipei to simulate an attack by ...
ANNE ARMSTRONG
Aug 01, 2008; ... Energetic US ambassador to Britain GLASS CEILINGS may still be the bane of women in Americanpolitics. But few broke so many as Anne Armstrong. She was the firstwoman to deliver the keynote address at a Republican convention, thefirst to hold the cabinet-level post of Counsellor to ...
Imperfect 10
Aug 01, 2008; ... From Britons going for glory to the constant threat of dopingscandals; from choking smog to open water; Simon Turnbull delivershis reasons to be cheerful or fearful about Beijing 1. The smog Not to be confused with John Carpenter's "cult classic" movie of1980, featuring ...
Russians banned for tampering with dope samples
Aug 01, 2008; ... Beijing OLYMPICS 2008 THE IAAF, world athletics' governing body, has banned sevenleading Russian women after charging them with manipulating drugsamples, a senior official said yesterday. "They are definitelysuspended and will miss the Beijing Olympics," Russian ...
Moyes far from Moutinho deal
Aug 01, 2008; ... David Moyes indicated yesterday that he saw no sign of animminent breakthrough in his pursuit of Sporting Lisbon's JoaoMoutinho and, as an unconvincing pre-season tour of the UScontinued, admitted that his side need five or six new players,fast. "We can't hide the fact that we ...
Wenger hoping Arsenal can avoid the big hitters
Aug 01, 2008; ... Arsne Wenger admits there are a few sides he would like hisArsenal team to avoid when the draw is made today for the thirdqualifying round of the Champions League, which is one step awayfrom the group stages. Arsenal join Liverpool, Rangers and Drogheda in today's draw anddespite ...
Candidate who wants Olmert's job once 'sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day'
Aug 01, 2008; ... A leading candidate to be Israel's next premier called for adeath toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the militaryduring the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by twoIsraeli journalists. The account of a briefing given in May 2001 to senior West ...
'I wanted to share Tracey's story with everyone I met'
Aug 01, 2008; ... Julian Schnabel on 20 years of Tracey Emin "Like a fucking dog when the truth is hard to bear; I wavedgoodbye to my mum at the school gates." I've read these words aloud on more than one occasion. This isthe title of a story from Tracey Emin's book Strangeland. At thetime, I ...
Bridge
Aug 01, 2008; ... Although they failed to make the cut, Monaco did far better inthe 2008 European Championships than they had ever done previously.Here, they are in action, defeating Greece. West for Monaco opened One Club, East responded One Heart (Mafia -Major Always First In Answering) and South ...
Concise Crossword #6800
Aug 01, 2008 ... Across 1 Desperate (4) 3 Social division (5) 8 Italian composer (7) 9 Local linguistic usage (5) 10 Pick-me-up (5) 11 Fortified place (7) 12 Make moist (6) 14 Make up (6) 17 Opposes (7) 18 Inflexible (5) 20 ...
Do you want free trade - or fair trade that helps the poor?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Whenever the world trade talks begin to seem like a coma-inducing bore-a-thon, I am jolted back to consciousness by thethroat-stripping smell of rubbish; miles of rotting rubbish. A fewyears ago I found Adelina - a skinny little scrap of an eight-year-old - living in a rubbish dump, ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Aug 01, 2008 ... 'A king has no dignity when he exercises authority over beggars,only when he rules over ...
Science Notebook
Aug 01, 2008; ... I must be the only person on the planet who can't get excitedabout Richard Branson's new venture to take fee-paying passengersinto "space". Probably because it's not the sort of trip I imaginedfrom reading Dan Dare comics. Instead of exotic places filled withunusual aliens - and we're ...
This trial must be short and sharp
Aug 01, 2008; ... THE BIG question now that Radovan Karadzic has appeared in thedock at the Hague is whether justice will be seen to be done betterthan in the convoluted, inconclusive trial of the former Serbianpresident Slobodan Milosevic. His trial should surely benefit from lessons learnt from ...