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...little to like in the leaders she interviewed. "They're brilliant propagandists, and it's awesome how cohesive they are at a local level," she says. "But they just thought it was funny that a housewife from Provence should be interested." A history graduate of Cambridge, Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From...
...Jewish state will exist forever. I want to tell you a personal story from my childhood. I was working with my father, who was an agronomist. It was very, very hot and I was dead thirsty, and there were thousands and thousands of small flies that entered my nose and eyes. When my father saw me tired, he'd stop for a minute and rest on the plough's tiller. He'd lift his hand behind him and say, 'Look how much we've done already.' Then with greater energy, he'd charge the hill. When I have worries...
...part of their life," says a Melbourne Year 6 teacher. "School is where they show off." A primary school in Sydney's south has asked its cleaners to pay special attention to the windows of the kindergarten rooms - on the outside they're usually smeared with parents' hand (and nose) prints. In return for their help - and sometimes high fees - some parents want power. Ascham, an exclusive private girls' school in Sydney's east, endured a public row earlier in the year when a group of its high-flying parents demanded a greater say in the school council's choice...
...apparent, Brown deviated from his prepared text to soften rousing attacks on the privileged into gentler critiques of their privileges. Says a Blair ally: "If they can reach a grand modus vivendi, Tony will be delighted." That would be some relief, after an election in which the prime-ministerial nose was comprehensively bloodied...
...Einstein," which will be at the Science Museum in London until June 12, and then departs for Edinburgh and Belfast, among other locations. Targeted mainly at 11- to 14-year-olds, the show profiles some of the projects that Einstein's successors are working on, such as an electronic nose that can sniff your breath to make a medical diagnosis, and tiny robots that may soon navigate your bloodstream. tel: (44-870) 870 4868; www.einsteinyear.org "The detail of Einstein's physics can be tricky, but you don't need to understand it to appreciate the effect that his work...