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Having lived in England for over a decade as London correspondent for the New York Times, Sarah Lyall has compiled her spot-on observations about the British into her new book The Anglo Files (Norton, 256 pages). She spoke to TIME from her London office. We can't say she was drinking tea as she spoke to us, but we can't say she wasn't, either...
That man is Jensen Ames (Anglo action star Jason Statham), an ex-con steelworker who for the moment is happily at home with his loving wife and adorable infant. All that changes when wifey is stabbed to death and Jensen wakes up next to her corpse with a bloody knife in his hand. He's quickly convicted and sent off to Terminal Island, where Hennessey awaits him with the chance to get out by assuming the guise of Frankenstein in the imminent three-day rally. "I'm offering you your freedom, Mr. Ames," she says. "If that's not worth...
...first five seasons of The X Files were shot in British Columbia, which was a good fit for a show that wanted to leave its fans with a chill. In its pensiveness and good manners, its immersion in desolate wastes, its search for eccentricity, even dementia, behind the blandest Anglo face, the show was devoutly Canadian. For the movie, which is set mostly in West Virginia, Carter took the crew back to Vancouver for one of its snowiest episodes ever...
...Steelworkers and Unite will remain largely autonomous, national entities, but they'll be guided by an Anglo-American umbrella leadership that will coordinate common policy. Gerard and Unite General Secretary Derek Simpson will likely serve as co-chairmen...
...there's been no rush for the exits by the corporate giants that have helped keep Zimbabwe ticking along, including Royal Dutch Shell, British American Tobacco, and the Anglo American Corporation, which owns a platinum mine in the country. Many of the 79 companies listed on the Harare Stock Exchange are, in fact, earning solid returns, despite the daily misery of most Zimbabweans amid severe shortages of food, electricity and fuel. Last year the London-based commodities firm Lonrho began an investment fund called LonZim, aiming to snap up investments before the collapse of Zimbabwe's government. Zimbabwe's immense...