Word: bbc
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...there was an extermination program to kill all the Jews, how come so many of them survived?" DAVID IRVING, British historian, speaking to the BBC from an Austrian prison. Irving is appealing a Vienna court's decision to sentence him to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust...
...Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested media giants and cable-TV companies include ESPN, Sony Entertainment and the BBC. Money isn't flowing into the sport through broadcasting rights alone. In the last two months, the BCCI signed sponsorship agreements and other deals that raised the organization's revenue over the next four years to $745 million. During the previous four-year period, the take was just $80 million...
...solid as the weights he loves lifting. When Githongo was appointed Kenya's anticorruption czar in 2003, Kenyans said that it would take a big guy to tackle the country's massive graft and sleaze problem. His "bulky physique ? seems to match his new enormous responsibilities," a local bbc reporter wrote in an online profile. But could one man take on Kenya's Big Men and force change? The answer, after enough twists and turns to fill a novel, turns out to be yes. Githongo may now live in Oxford, England - testament to the danger he says he faces...
...school attic, and the ode to an imaginary girlfriend, Funny Little Frog. And they are delivered with Murdoch's characteristic humanity and obscure wit - it's still thinking music, so long as you think while you dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle...
...prisons, and then Fingersmith, the fiendishly clever appropriation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, in 2003. All three have been critically and commercially well-received, appealing to a wide variety of readers, prize judges and drama producers who have turned both Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith into successful bbc adaptations. Often touted as a role model in the lesbian literary tradition, Waters is quick to acknowledge one of her immediate forerunners. "Jeanette Winterson is someone who had a huge effect," she says, "because she was writing clearly lesbian literature with literary ambitions as well. Her novels are good literary...