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...that Ball was getting too big for his britches - and Murdoch didn't like it. Murdoch's lieutenants have a history of vanishing when they become too prominent. In 1994 Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil felt the sting, and in 2001 editor Xana Antunes left the New York Post amid a 10% circulation rise. Ball has certainly developed an appetite for the spotlight. In mid-August he was vocal about supporting a dividend payout, and later in the month, at a television festival in Edinburgh, Ball assailed the bbc for wasting its public funding. It may well be that Ball...
...Omen For Blair U.K. Tony Blair's Labour Party lost one of its safest seats to the Liberal Democrats in a parliamentary by-election in the London suburb of Brent East. The 29% swing against Labour was the largest for almost a decade. The vote came amid the inquiry into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly and mounting frustration over Blair's policy on Iraq. The opposition Conservative party came in a poor third...
...Amid the change, Harvard returns all but three regular players and will likely be the favorite to win the regular season title when the league’s preseason media and coaches polls are released Monday in Albany...
...being released in six-month intervals, Matrix-style: Quicksilver drops in September, The Confusion in April 2004 and The System of the World in October 2004. But you'll wish it were longer. Its scope is galactically vast and encompasses the lives of noblemen, vagabonds and, above all, thinkers. Amid the still smoking aftermath of the Fire of London, the likes of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny...
...Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual sale, with women standing in line down an entire block to get into the store, he is a ponytailed, tranquil cult leader amid a rush of manicured hands hopefully holding boots up into the curtained storeroom in supplication...