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...conviction that places like Eton exist mainly to preserve the privileges of those who already monopolize too many, and you understand why many in the postwar Labour Party wanted to abolish them. In the 1960s, Eton took that threat seriously enough to start contemplating a move to Ireland. Under New Labour, the danger of extinction has vanished. Blair's government has limited itself to a bill that will require private schools to publish the social benefits they generate to justify their charitable tax-exemption status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school...
...collected $24 million last year in songwriters' royalties from live, ticketed pop events in Britain - more than double the amount collected in 2000. The eFestivals website lists over 300 festivals of all genres for 2006 in Britain, compared to just 62 in 2001. Feargal Sharkey, former singer with Northern Ireland's pop punks the Undertones, and now head of the British government's Live Music Forum, says, "While other sections of the music industry have gone through some growing pains over the last couple of years, the live-music industry has just been getting bigger and more successful...
...name acts. For mobile-phone firms like Virgin and O2, it's a branding exercise in front of a natural consumer base. And for beer companies too, it's not just about selling suds to fans. Heineken backs Spain's FIB as well as the Oxegen Festival in Ireland; in Germany Becks is sponsoring 15 summer events this year. "You directly want to link in to something with scale, and yes, there is a cool halo effect of being associated with a festival like that," says Coor's Coyle, of the rotating festivals at Reading and Leeds that Carling...
...airports. Italian prosecutors have concluded that their country, too, participated in that operation; a trial in Milan of 22 American alleged cia operatives may begin before the end of this year. The Marty report also alleges some degree of collusion from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. For a practice "utterly alien to the European tradition," an awful lot of European nations were apparently willing to help. So is Europe serious about opposing torture? On paper, yes: Section I, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights states: "No one shall...
...name only, as coach Gordon Graham named them Harvard’s No. 1 doubles team this fall, creating in the process a dual force that would take women’s collegiate tennis by storm. Anderson, who hails from Australia, and O’Riain, who is from Ireland, immediately formed a chemistry on the court. “We just clicked,” Anderson said. “We’re both from overseas, we’re both foreign, and we have games that complement each other. Elsa’s really aggressive...