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...album is striking a chord with so many people in 2009? It's a bit of nostalgia and what's going on in Afghanistan at the moment, I suppose. With our boys going away once again to fight, it sort of got people interested in the music of the earlier period. And the schools have been teaching about the Second World War, and that causes an interest...
...executives considered the group's deteriorating finances - GMG reported a pre-tax loss of ?89.8 million ($147 million) for 2008-09, with the division that houses the Observer and the Guardian hemorrhaging ?36.8 million ($60.3 million), compared with a loss of ?26.4 million ($43.2 million) a year earlier, on turnover of ?253.6 million ($415.3 million) - the idea of effectively killing the Observer to protect the Guardian arguably chimed with the Scott Trust's credo. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...husband-to-be, but she can say it to this woman at the gym. The old rules of disclosure were, we disclose after we have a certain amount of history and we have a shared trust. Sometimes, given the right circumstances, we may open up a lot earlier than that...
...attempt to bring the ISI firmly under civilian control swiftly backfired last year, while army pressure earlier this year was behind the sacking of the national security adviser and crucial to the reinstatement of the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court. More troubling for Washington is that Zardari's approval ratings have plummeted over the past year, to just 32%, according to the most charitable poll, matching President Pervez Musharraf's levels in his final months. "The general view is that the government is not batting for the country," says Aasiya Riaz, a political analyst...
...while he didn't think events like the Juanes concert hurt U.S.-Cuba relations, "I wouldn't overstate the degree that it helps." If that indifference seems to contradict the spirit of U.S.-Cuba engagement that Obama expressed in his presidential campaign and at the Summit of the Americas earlier this year, it may be because he's found that conservatives can still give him headaches over Cuba and the Latin-American left. Republicans are currently holding up key diplomatic appointments in Congress, for example, to protest Obama's support of leftist Honduran Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted...