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...reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long weekend in August. Throw in cameo appearances by Rupert Murdoch and his daughter Elisabeth, and the Corfu capers are proving the perfect distraction from Britain's credit crunch woes. A month ago Labour and the Conservatives pledged cross-party cooperation to shield Brits from the economic crisis, but nobody ever imagined it would take this form...
...expense of another, Osborne. "If this was just about integrity, Nat[haniel] wouldn't have done it," says a member of the financier's circle. "I don't think he realized the storm he was going to create, but there's more to this than meets the eye." As Britain sinks into a gloomy winter, the promise of new revelations should at least bring some small...
...sahibs (rulers of the province) forced her and those like her to cultivate. Where once they had planted crops that would feed their families, they now tend waving fields of blossoms that will one day become the opium manufactured in the local factory and shipped to greedy merchants in Britain and China.Also introduced in this first novel, although not developed enough to make it satisfying in its own right, is a golden thread of mysticism that melds art and spirituality. While bathing in the Ganga, Deeti receives a vision of a double-masted ship with a bird at the prow?...
...explosion in gaelscoileanna is part of an Irish-language renaissance that's been building over the past twenty years. Centuries of colonization left Ireland with a severely depleted population of Irish speakers by the time it gained independence from Britain in 1922. For decades after, the language was ghettoized in remote, rural pockets of the country and weighed down by associations with poverty or sectarian extremism. Today, between 5 and 10% of the 4.2 million people living in Ireland speak Irish on a daily basis, and many of those are students who only speak it in school...
...clearly more than commerce riding on the new trade across the Line of Control, gingerly reviving an old trade route from Srinagar to Rawalpindi. But a durable peace in a conflict that has been at the epicenter of the existential hostility between India and Pakistan since independence from Britain in 1947, will require a lot more than a modest trade in spices and grains and fruit...