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They were hoping for a miracle, but all they can do now is turn the other cheek. On Wednesday Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, lost their lawsuit against publisher Random House - again - when Britain's Court of Appeal ruled that Dan Brown had not stolen their ideas for his mega-hit cryptic thriller The Da Vinci Code...
...ideas and adapt them." The decision means the Holy Blood authors can't claim massive royalties from Random House (who also published their book) and still have to pay the $6 million legal bill. They can still appeal the appeal and try to convince the House of Lords, Britain's answer to the Supreme Court, to take the case. But at this point, they'd have better luck trying to walk on water...
...Plainly, there is something rotten in the state of a game once deemed so noble that it supposedly embodied the great civilizational virtues by which Britain claimed the right to rule over others...
...Iran justified its capture of the 15 Brits by claiming they had been in Iranian territorial waters - a claim hotly disputed by Britain. Although boundaries are somewhat contested in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, and British officials had initially said the Iranian action may simply have been based on a misunderstanding, the British position hardened over the weekend, with Prime Minister Tony Blair denouncing the Iranian action as "unjustified and wrong," and warning that Britain viewed it in a serious light. On Monday Iraq backed London's claim that the incident had occurred inside Iraqi waters, which Britain patrols under...
...chat shows with a lute to promote Songs from the Labyrinth, a CD of tunes by 16th century composer John Dowland. And fat Henry hasn't been left out. A just-closed exhibit of work by the King's portraitist, Hans Holbein, was a hit for London's Tate Britain museum...