The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from April 2001:
EUROPE OF THE REGIONS Mandelson's bandwagon Notebook
Apr 01, 2001; ... It was with a groan of recognition that on Friday we heard PeterMandelson calling for "elected regional parliaments" for England, tomatch those already in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London. In the relentless drive to bring Britain into ever-closerintegration with the ...
Glenn has the right credentials Former England coach's quick football brain always set him apart from the rest
Apr 01, 2001; ... Having lost a rather special manager in Martin O'Neill atLeicester, the club I support, I can sympathise with thedisappointment of Southampton fans over last week's departure ofGlenn Hoddle. The best invariably gravitate to the top in any walkof life and, while Saints fans might ...
Driving towards history Tiger Woods can land a unique grand slam at this week's US Masters but hype is his biggest enemy
Apr 01, 2001; ... After four days that shake the world, Vijay Singh helps the 2001champion Tiger Woods into a green jacket, size 42 long. Outside theButler Cabin President Bush hopes for a chance to touch the hem ofthis special garment. A few miles down the road from Augusta, aspace shuttle is waiting to ...
Only men can dress down to dress upTime of my life
Apr 01, 2001; ... If a man walked into his office or club dressed exactly as hewould have been dressed in 1935, he would attract no attention. If awoman adopted the fashions of the same date, she would look absurd.This gives the man an enormous advantage. His suits are never out ofdate. He does not have ...
Dead men do tell tales The Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande has witnessed many autopsies. A generation ago they were routine - today they are a rarity. But, he argues, without the evidence these examinations provide, serious illnesses are being misdiagnosed
Apr 01, 2001; ... Your patient is dead; the family is gathered. There is one lastthing that you must ask about: the autopsy. How should you go aboutit? You could do it off-handedly, as if it were the most ordinarything in the world: "Shall we do an autopsy, then?" Or you could befirm: "Unless you have ...
Harmon keeps Tiger's feet on the ground James Mossop meets the coach who believes `the greatest player ever' still has room to improve
Apr 01, 2001; ... Tiger Woods is far from the finished product. Such a baldstatement may be enough to provoke apoplexy in those millions whosee him as golfing perfection personified but it comes from the manhe leans on most. His coach, Butch Harmon, currently working with Woods on shapingthe shots ...
Laughterlines As a chubby schoolboy he used humour as a defence - and it has never let him down. Sir Peter Ustinov, 80 this month and now more of a `sit-down' than a stand-up performer, goes head to head with John Bird
Apr 01, 2001; ... A heavy-duty walking stick is the only concession Sir PeterUstinov makes to the accumulation of 80 years, and he laid itceremoniously on the table between us when we met in a Londonstudio, to look back over his hectic life and multi-fingered careeras author, actor, director, graphic ...
Caught up in a world wide web of gossip When Keith and Julie Conrad were accused of sending hate mail to a neighbour in their small American town, they became social outcasts. So they decided to get even - in cyberspace. Katty Kay visits the war zone
Apr 01, 2001; ... Fishing Creek Farm, on the banks of Maryland's wide, blueChesapeake Bay, looks like an idyllic slice of small-town America.The clapboard houses - built during the 1980s boom and each worthseveral million dollars - are generously spaced, boast new cars intriple garages and varnished ...
A devil of a show Radio
Apr 01, 2001; ... Andy Hamilton is so funny in panel games partly because his voiceis so flat and full of world-weariness. He speaks as though what heis saying, however outrageous, can not be news, just the same oldstory all over again, yet more proof that if you expect the worst ofpeople you won't be ...
Unepic monarchTheatre
Apr 01, 2001; ... King John A Midsummer Night's Dream The Kings of the Kilburn High Road Among Shakespeare's English history plays, King John standssomewhat apart. It can't be made to fit easily into the sense of anational epic, and it lacks strong dramatic or moral focus. For ...
Slaves sing it loud and twice in Manhattan Opera
Apr 01, 2001; ... Nabucco and Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera House, NewYork On the whole, the centenary commemoration of Verdi's death haskept to the well-known core of his 28 operas. You could track downLuisa Miller in San Francisco, and brownie points go to Buxton,which has Un giorno di ...
A miraclein the East End The White chapel celebrates its centenary this spring. John McEwen explains how the gallery has played a vital role in British art
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Whitechapel Art Gallery is one of London's wonders. As BryanRobertson (director, 1952-68) wrote in these pages two weeks ago, ithas the inestimable advantage of being daylit and is a favourite ofartists who "feel at home as if in some impossibly lovely studio".This year marks the ...
Best-sellers
Apr 01, 2001; ... Paperback non-fiction 1 Child Called It, Dave Pelzer (Orion, pounds 5.99). 16,514. 2 Delia's Chocolate Collection: Comic Relief Edition, Delia Smith(New Crane, pounds 1). 14,679. 3 McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, PeteMcCarthy (Sceptre, pounds 6.99) ....
Bartered, battered, burned Sunil Khilnani on the Indian women whose horrific lives can culminate in an even more dreadful death
Apr 01, 2001; ... Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in ModernIndia by Mala Sen Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 270 pp pounds 17 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 AS THE NOBEL prize-winning economist Amartya Sen pointed out someyears ago, India's population is ...
Books; Literary Life
Apr 01, 2001; ... IT HAD TO happen. An American academic at the University of BatonRouge in Louisiana is claiming that Barbara Cartland was a secretpornographer. Orla Tott, Professor of Intertextual Studies, has,with the aid of a computer program and three research students,analysed all of Dame Barbara's ...
A Guide to Life Which is the book that has taught you most about what life is really like? Continuing our series, the politician and novelist Douglas Hurd chooses Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution
Apr 01, 2001; ... A POLITICIAN , however pragmatic, needs some anchor of belief ifhe is not to be at the mercy of every gale. My copy of Burke'sReflections on the French Revolution dates from Cambridge days andis well thumbed. Not so much the purple passage on Marie Antoinette,which gives her more honour ...
Hitler's Hausfrauen Richard Overy examines the way the Fuhrer exerted influence on Germany's women
Apr 01, 2001; ... Nazi Women: Hitler's Seduction of a Nation by Cate Haste Channel 4/Macmillan, pounds 14.99, 256 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 "THE GREATER the man, the more insignificant should be thewoman", was how Adolf Hitler summed up his view of the opposite ...
The fragility of China
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Drink & Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99, 344 pp pounds 10.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 ANYONE WHO has visited China must wonder what goes on behindthose apocryphally inscrutable faces. How can these people have putbehind them ...
The Troubles he's seen
Apr 01, 2001; ... A Clouded Peace by John Cole Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99, 265 pp pounds 10.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 NOBODY COULD accuse John Cole of not knowing what he is writingabout. With his trademark Ulster accent, the former BBC politicaleditor must be one of ...
A man who did derring-do Andrew Roberts is bowled over by the tale of an adventurer who took the task of empire building literally
Apr 01, 2001; ... Lion of Empire: The Life of `Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan by Edward Paice HarperCollins, pounds 19.99, 470 pp pounds 16.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 MEN LIKE Ewart Grogan would have cut a swathe in any period ofBritish history, but it just so happened that he lived during ...
Paperbacks
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Human Stain by Philip Roth Vintage, pounds 6.99 "IF YOU haven't lived through 1998", says Nathan Zuckerman, thenarrator of The Human Stain, "you don't know what sanctimony is."The story of an urbane classics professor hounded off campus by themad dogs of political ...
Paperbacks
Apr 01, 2001; ... Experience by Martin Amis Vintage, pounds 7.99 MARTIN AMIS'S autobiography is as much about his father as abouthimself. Kingsley appears constantly in flashbacks, sidelongreferences, elaborate footnotes and quotations from his works. Along account of Kingsley's final ...
Age cannot wither her Peter Jones enjoys this study of Cleopatra that gets beyond the Roman propaganda
Apr 01, 2001; ... Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth by Susan Walker and Peter Higgs British Museum Press, pounds 40, pounds 24.99 pbk, 369 pp pounds 36, pounds 22.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THERE MAY BE much we do not know about Cleopatra, but at least wehave her ...
Caught in the crisis
Apr 01, 2001; ... One victim of the crisis in Cumbria is Viscountess Whitelaw,widow of the late deputy prime minister Lord Whitelaw. She is tryingto sell her magnificent nine-bedroom home and 24 acres of land forpounds 850,000 through Clark Scott-Harden. She has had severalenquiries but says: "I am having ...
Bad men but good art Alasdair Palmer enjoys this idio syncratic book on art and artists, meaning and morality
Apr 01, 2001; ... Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel Bloomsbury, pounds 30, 337 pp pounds 26 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS DELIGHTFUL book will fascinate anyone who enjoys looking atpictures. It consists of 12 essays on the work of 12 differentartists. Some, such as Picasso and ...
No fool like an April Fool on site On the level
Apr 01, 2001; ... You will not be surprised to hear that April Fool jokes are derigueur on building sites, and that many a harassed site managerwill be lying abed this morning thanking his lucky stars that thedreaded day falls, for once, on a Sunday. He will not have to go towork to find his boots screwed ...
Opening this week Inventing New Britain
Apr 01, 2001; ... The centenary of Queen Victoria's death in 1901 is suitablycommemorated at the Victoria and Albert Museum with a vastexhibition, Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision (Thur-July29), showing how modern Britain emerged during the Queen's longreign, which began in 1837. With the aid ...
Come on in, the garden's lovely For all their neighbourly tensions, says Emily Bearn, London's residential squares have never been more sought-after
Apr 01, 2001; ... Communal living is a notion from which the English havetraditionally shied. Yet the most sought-after homes in London arethose that come with access to a private garden square which isyours to roam with a few hundred fellow residents. So popular havethese homes become that they sell for ...
Classical CDs
Apr 01, 2001; ... Verdi Don Carlos Orch. de Paris/ Pappano (Warner Music Vision NVCArts 0630-16318-2). This is Luc Bondy's production, seen at CoventGarden but filmed here at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, in 1996and conducted not by Bernard Haitink but by his designated RoyalOpera successor Antonio ...
Rock CDs
Apr 01, 2001; ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part (Mute). I'llbet all the other critics love this album because it's certainly oneof the most sensitive, gently affecting, exquisitely arranged,pleasingly mixed, intriguingly sung of Cave's long, prolific career.Unfortunately, it's also ...
Opera
Apr 01, 2001; ... Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Pier-Luigi Pizzi's production ofBellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Sat 7) with Sonia Ganassi andElena Kelessidi as Romeo and Juliet. Bruno Campanella conducts. Lastperformances of Henze's Boulevard Solitude (tmw, Wed 8). ENO 020 7632 8300. Last ...
Videos
Apr 01, 2001; ... Billy Elliot (Universal, 15). A would-be Kes for the newmillennium as miner's son Jamie Bell discovers ballet on his way toboxing lessons. Warm-hearted, but director Stephen Daldry neversatisfactorily intregrates the human element with the tougher socialbackground (the 1984 miners' ...
Theatre
Apr 01, 2001; ... Semi-Monde Lyric Shaftesbury 020 7494 5045. Noel Coward wrote hiskaleidoscopic account of smart folk flitting around the bar of theParis Ritz when he was 26: it was too daring to be staged at thetime, and is only now receiving its first London production. Much ofits cocktail-chatter has ...
Concerts
Apr 01, 2001; ... Barbican Hall, 020 7638 8891, Sun, 7.30pm: Sir Andrew Davisreturns to conduct the BBC SO and Chorus in Stravinsky's Symphony inThree Movements and Symphony of Psalms, Ravel's Sheherazade (withmezzo-soprano Susan Graham) and the world premiere of Per Nrgard'sTerrains Vagues. Sat, 7.30pm: ...
Cinema
Apr 01, 2001; ... You Can Count On Me (15). Playwright Kenneth Lonergan's bigscreen directing debut is a low-budget, low-key and utterly credibleportrait of the relationship between a brother and sister. LauraLinney is great as a single mom whose small-town life is disruptedby her finicky new manager ...
Rock
Apr 01, 2001; ... All Tomorrow's Parties A strange start to the festival season:leftfield bands including Boards of Canada and Lambchop as well asan appearance from the veteran Television in a weekend `curated' byTortoise and held in a holiday park. Camber Sands Holiday Centre,East Sussex, Fri-next Sun, ...
Pugin's last stand in Dorset Pugin Hall, built to exacting standards by the designer (left) of Westminster Palace, is the only one of his Gothic country homes that will ever be for sale. Mary Wilson has the details
Apr 01, 2001; ... Pugin Hall, Dorset, is a remarkable house, and it has thepaperwork to prove it. Copies of the original plans from 1845estimate the building costs at pounds 1,794 10s 0d - with pounds 200deducted for re-using old materials - and end with the words: "Thewhole of the above work to be ...
Dance
Apr 01, 2001; ... English National Ballet The company has split in two and istouring medium-sized regional theatres with two well-chosenprogrammes classical and modern work. One half dance Balanchine'sApollo, Christopher Hampson's Perpetuum Mobile and the classicalfireworks of the grand pas from Paquita ...
Art
Apr 01, 2001; ... Richard Wilson Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies Street, W1, 020 7493 2488.To April 28. Wilson made 20:50, the reflective field of sump oil atthe Saatchi Gallery, Britain's best-loved installation piece. Herehe inaugurates the new-look Gimpels, which by moving its office, hasadded light and ...
Public offered route to private placings
Apr 01, 2001; ... DURLACHER's online share dealing service, Nothing-ventured.com,is to launch a club giving individual investors access to privateplacings and new share issues. The site, which was set up a year ago, is aiming to let investorsinto early stage fund raising in companies at the same ...
Davies to warn against chasing high returns
Apr 01, 2001; ... SIR Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority,will warn investors next week that they could be putting theirsavings at risk if they try to chase the sort of high returns theyroutinely enjoyed in the 1980s and early 1990s. In a speech to be delivered to the CBI ...
Low-key launch for stakeholders
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE first stakeholder pensions go on sale next Friday. But, inmarked contrast to the massive Isa advertising campaigns of the pastfew months, major insurers are virtually ignoring the advent of thenew Government-backed low-cost schemes. This has led to fears that sales may be ...
Equitable rebels plan AGM coup
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE policyholder action groups battling for justice fromEquitable Life are planning to join forces and stage a revolt at theannual general meeting in May. They are expected to nominate several candidates for the board,possibly including a challenger to the new chairman, Vanni ...
Travelex plans pounds 1bn flotation
Apr 01, 2001; ... TRAVELEX, the foreign currency and payments business, is planninga pounds 1bn stockmarket flotation. The company, which last week completed the pounds 440macquisition of Thomas Cook's financial services business, whichincludes the Thomas Cook foreign exchange shops, has been ...
British Nuclear Fuels plunges into the red
Apr 01, 2001; ... LOSSES at British Nuclear Fuel's Magnox reactor division soaredto about pounds 100m last year, pushing the company into the red.BNFL, which the Government still hopes to privatise and which madean operating profit before exceptionals of pounds 65m a yearearlier, has also been hit by ...
M&S to move to new headquarters
Apr 01, 2001; ... MARKS & Spencer is preparing to abandon Michael House, its famousBaker Street headquarters, to move to new offices at PaddingtonBasin in west London. The ailing retailer is in advancednegotiations with Chelsfield, the property company, to take 400,000sq ft of space in its Paddington ...
Financial companies flout data protection laws, says report
Apr 01, 2001; ... MANY major UK companies are flouting data protection lawsintroduced 12 months ago - and the worst culprits are financialservices groups, according to new research. The research was conducted by Professor Merlin Stone of BristolBusiness School on behalf of Mondex International ....
Scoot in talks to sell Loot
Apr 01, 2001; ... SCOOT.COM, the troubled online directory business, is in talks tosell Loot, the classified advertising business it bought nine monthsago for pounds 177m. Trader.com, a French rival, is understood tohave approached Merrill Lynch, Scoot's adviser, with a bid for thenewspaper and website ....
Arcadia set to sell Wade Smith for pounds 10m
Apr 01, 2001; ... ARCADIA, the high street fashion group, is expected to announcethis week that it is selling Wade Smith, the Liverpool-baseddesigner retailer it bought in 1998 for pounds 17.3m. Stuart Rose, who became chief executive of Arcadia last November,has been locked in negotiations to sell ...
Center Parcs targets Oasis
Apr 01, 2001; ... BOURNE Leisure is preparing to sell Oasis, the Lake Districtholiday village, for about pounds 65m to Center Parcs, the venturecapital-backed leisure business. Bourne, which acquired Oasis last year as part of Rank's holidaybusiness, is understood to be ready to sell the village ...
Big banks turn a deaf ear to Cruickshank A year ago a report called for radical change. Emma Simon finds no signs of progress
Apr 01, 2001; ... What a difference a year makes. Or does it? It is 12 months sinceDon Cruickshank published his damning report on the banking sector,in which he accused the high street banks of overcharging customers,anti-competitive practices and creating confusion about the fees andterms attached to ...
How are my pension plans doing?
Apr 01, 2001; ... MY Abbey Life self-employed personal pension is due for itsannual contribution, but I see my fund value has dropped. While Isort this out with Abbey Life, I have begun to wonder where I mightfind a list of pension funds available to the self-employed withtheir performance tables. I did ...
BT to break Kingston monopoly over Hull
Apr 01, 2001; ... BT IS to enter the telecommunications market in the Hull areawhich until now has been dominated by Kingston Communications. Under European Union regulations, Kingston must open its localexchanges to other operators and BT, which is also being forced toopen its exchanges to rivals, ...
Mirror pension warnings ignored
Apr 01, 2001; ... IMRO, the City watchdog for the fund management industry,repeatedly warned the Securities and Investments Board, then chiefCity regulator, to tighten controls on how pension funds weremanaged shortly before the Maxwell pensions scandal. The warnings, which have never been made ...
Winterthur to sell its pensions admin business
Apr 01, 2001; ... WINTERTHUR Life, the life insurance subsidiary of Credit Suisse,the Swiss banking group, has put its specialist pensionsadministration business up for sale with a price tag of aroundpounds 50m. The life insurer is said to have called in Fox Pitt Kelton, theinvestment bank, to ...
Fashion victims
Apr 01, 2001; ... FASHION is a dreadful thing when you're an Isa investor as thefollowing story demonstrates all too well. Kean Seager, managing director of Whitechurch Securities, theindependent financial adviser, was so convinced of the attractionsof Credit Suisse's income fund a year ago that not ...
Creme de la creme of UK plc tomeet Greenspan
Apr 01, 2001; ... TOP flight British executives are to meet with Alan Greenspan andsenior US officials this week to discuss UK business concernsranging from the slowdown in the US economy to President Bush'sopposition to the Kyoto global warming treaty. Lord Marshall, chairman of British Airways, ...
Don't let greed strangle the stakeholders at birth
Apr 01, 2001; ... WE'VE gone stakeholder crazy this week. Unlike the pensionsindustry, which is treating next Friday's stakeholder launch with amixture of boredom and contempt. Why? I can think of only onereason. Greed. Charges on stakeholders are limited to 1 per cent a year. Thereare minimal ...
Offers pour in for Morgan Grenfell pubs
Apr 01, 2001; ... MORGAN Grenfell Private Equity, which recently agreed to paypounds 1.62bn for the 3,000-strong Whitbread pub estate, is alreadyconsidering the sale of between 500 to 1,000 of the pubs for aboutpounds 500m, after receiving a large number of offers. Interest is understood to have ...
Railtrack pays the price for its pounds 1.5bn advance
Apr 01, 2001; ... IS there no end to Railtrack's woes? The company has finallysqueezed a pounds 1.5bn cash advance from the Government, but at anastonishingly high price. Railtrack has succumbed to pressure tohave a government-approved director installed on its board. What, Iwonder, will shareholders ...
Another fine M&S
Apr 01, 2001; ... JUST over a year ago Luc Vandevelde, then newly installed asMarks & Spencer chairman, told the world that no retailer can affordnot to be international. Last week the retail group announced it wasaxing its European business and selling the US operations, BrooksBrothers and the Kings ...
Power play by S&SE?
Apr 01, 2001; ... JIM Forbes, the larger-than-life chief executive of Scottish &Southern Energy, should be thinking this weekend about whether heshould bid for Seeboard, the electricity supply company in the SouthEast of England, which was put up for sale last week by its parent,American Electric Power ....
What price management?
Apr 01, 2001; ... ONCE UPON a time managers of companies owned them and tended toget their rewards through dividends. Then came the rise of jointstock enterprises and industrial capitalism, and the emergence ofinstitutional investors. Today most large enterprises are publiccompanies where the directors ...
On your marks for stakeholders Liz Dolan appraises the likely impact of the pension plans which will be launched on Friday
Apr 01, 2001; ... Stakeholder pensions finally hit the streets this Friday, April6. Few people are likely to notice. Pension providers, many of whomgreeted the idea of cheaper, more flexible pension plans withhorror, have, with very few exceptions, virtually ignored them asfar as individuals are ...
Frankfurt's failure
Apr 01, 2001; ... THEY have done it again! In failing to cut interest rates lastweek, the European Central Bank missed a golden opportunity anddelivered another kick in the teeth to that dwindling band of peoplewho think Britain should rush to join the euro. Consider what has happened to the world ...