Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCourt spoke humorously about his own British-style education in Limerick, Ireland, which abided by a strict question-and-answer format--the teacher asked and the students answered...
Hawking showed flashes of biting British humor throughout the speech, frequently breaking out into a wide grin after telling jokes...
DIED. CHARLES CRICHTON, 89, British film director of The Lavender Hill Mob, among other comedies of the '40s and '50s; in London. Most recently, Crichton was nominated for an Oscar for the farcical 1988 John Cleese blockbuster, A Fish Called Wanda, his first feature film in nearly 25 years...
...longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still active. Mitrokhin wanted to publish his files...
...Kosovo. Indeed, it becomes difficult while pressing for Slobodan Milosevic to be tried in the Hague for crimes against his own citizenry to argue that the charges against Pinochet ?- whose regime murdered at least 3,000 of its political opponents ?- are a domestic matter. But even if a British Magistrate?s Court upholds Spain?s extradition request, the 83-year-old general will still have recourse to appeal ?- and ultimately, to a political decision by Home Secretary Jack Straw, who may well be persuaded by compassionate arguments on behalf of the ailing Pinochet. But by then, the general may well...