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...single, Ooh La La, entered the British pop chart last week at No. 4. Glamorous pictures of her - often resplendent in peacock tail, gold platform heels and nothing else - are spread across major newspapers and magazines, alongside gushing reviews for Supernature, her album released this week. So what does Britain's favorite electro-rock diva do on her day off? "I'm going to buy a wastepaper bin," says Goldfrapp, speaking by phone from her home in Bath in southwestern England. "I'm very excited about it, actually." It's a rare break from her carefully constructed public image...
...Farewell to Arms" reported on the announcement by the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) that it is formally ending its armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland [Aug. 8]. The story reminded me of 1993, when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo peace accords and shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We all applauded and thought that peace had finally come to the Middle East. We so wanted it to be true. But terrorists are con artists. Their promises are worthless. They are good at murdering innocents and then blaming the victims. Terrorists quit only when...
...decision to break seals placed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on a facility in Isfahan, thus ending a nine-month-old voluntary moratorium on converting uranium ore into gas used in the uranium-enrichment process. The move followed Iran's rejection of a U.S.-backed compromise proposed by Britain, France and Germany that called for Iran to give up uranium-enrichment activities - which could potentially produce fuel for an atomic weapon - in exchange for a comprehensive European economic assistance package. "It is an insult to the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad told United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan last week, rejecting...
...right to enrich uranium for energy purposes, the Europeans and the U.S. believe Tehran forfeited that right by concealing part of its nuclear program from IAEA scrutiny for two decades. Although the U.S. was initially skeptical of Europe's diplomatic approach, it subsequently backed that effort. And now, Britain, France and Germany are clearly losing patience with Iran. Ahmadinejad has said he wants negotiations to continue ?without preconditions,? but if Iran insists on continuing its conversion work the talks will likely...
...Zealand who traveled overseas to fight in World War II. The sacrifices they made are chastening to recount: Australia lost nearly 34,000 killed; New Zealand's 12,000 toll was the highest per head of population of any Commonwealth nation - at 6,700 per million, more than Britain's 5,100 or Australia...