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...they were right. Basement Jaxx are the ludicrously good stuff--plus a bag of screams. Two skinny white Brit boys who started playing in the back of a Taco Joe's five years ago, they jacked it up in their basement to come up with a monthly night in Brixton that drove London's youth nuts. The twitching and the glittering alike frothed in the mouth to get in, and once inside, they foamed in the veins to get it on. Last March, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe dropped unsigned out of the continental sky into the Winter Music Conference...
Meanwhile, an unidentified caller left a message on my answering machine (or "answerphone" in Brit-speak). The voice sounded vaguely familiar, and I soon realized that the phone number matched the number of a flat I'd visited several days before: it was Mike from Bayswater. A lively area in central London, full of shops, pubs, restaurants and tourists, Bayswater is perhaps best known as neighbor to Notting Hill. In other words, this flat was in a desirable location. Location, it turned out, was just about the only thing the flat had going...
...locker room of the club, one might just run into another remnant from that same period of antiquity in the news business. Furry, flabby and foul-mouthed, a dislocated Brit turned foreign correspondent tells an intern about reporting, as he knows it. "Thay're in jayill naow, the fahks." For the old hack, possessed of a cockney so thick it sounds Australian and a mouth as foul as Sammy Sosa's late swing, the march of history is not poignant--it is a hard blow to the gut. He speaks of the former owners of United Press International, scoundrels whose...
...France Presse might sneak across the borders, but the Scrippses felt offshore ownership would compromised the company's excellence. Today a Saudi group, including the brother-in-law of King Fahd owns UPI. But how can anyone complain? It beats the embezzlers whose hard time still makes the old Brit grin...
TONY BLAIR Brit P.M. loses big at Euro polls; good war didn't help. Bush Sr. could have told him that