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...Obviously divorce is quite an expensive time with legal fees and it can be quite busy; there's lots of stuff to think about," says Ruth Attridge, spokeswoman for Debenhams department store, which has more than 150 outlets across Britain and Ireland. "So we thought well, we'll set up a divorce gift list and maybe it'll be a way for friends and family to help that person on their way a bit." She says several customers turned the company onto the idea last year when they inquired whether there were divorce gift lists similar to the ones...
...internship program offers Harvard undergraduates a $4,000 stipend for eight- to ten-week internships at domestic or international political or public service organizations. It includes placements at The Colbert Report, the offices of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, and Parliamentary offices in Great Britain...
...narrative of the band’s career to show footage from 2009’s warm-up gigs and jumping from the youthful teenage version of the band writing their first album, “Leisure,” to the seasoned veterans touring their greatest hits around Britain. As such, the film can be a little confusing for those who don’t already have a pretty good idea of what Blur achieved, and is only really appropriate for fans of the band. For these fans, however, “No Distance Left to Run?...
...More embarrassingly, the Dubai authorities are claiming that the hit team stole the identities of Israeli dual-national citizens, and traveled into Dubai using false British, Irish and French passports. Now the governments of those countries are promising swift investigations into the matter, while the European media - especially in Britain - are asking whether or not those governments were forewarned of the operation. Meanwhile, Dubai is demanding that Interpol issue an arrest warrant for the chief of Mossad. While such an action is unlikely, the moderate Arab city-state's commitment to pursue the case will be hard for its Western...
...Britain's Prime Minister emerges in three new books - by Peter Watt, a former general secretary of the Labour Party, Lance Price, a former Downing Street adviser, and Andrew Rawnsley, a political journalist - as a man of volcanic rages, prone to lobbing mobile phones and choice epithets if provoked. And this trio of tomes, carefully timed for publication ahead of parliamentary elections tipped by insiders to take place on May 6, certainly offers provocation. (Read a TIME profile of Gordon Brown...