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...strikes. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss of BBC1, Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, the BBC's director general Mark Thompson announced plans...
...rule. An increasingly independent Supreme Court will decide in coming days if Musharraf's amnesty for Bhutto is constitutional. At the same time, the court is weighing the legitimacy of Musharraf's own landslide victory in the presidential election in early October. The upshot is that Pakistan's homecoming queen faces a host of challenges in coming months that will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to surmount...
Those schoolboy days ended at age 17, when Stoppard went to work for a newspaper in Bristol. He covered the police beat and routine local news, but he also got to interview visiting celebrities--New Orleans jazz musicians, British movie-glamour queen Diana Dors. "I was so thrilled being a reporter," he says, "because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet." After a few years, he moved to London, where he continued to write reviews and celebrity profiles. In 1960 he talked his way into a trip to New York...
...exhibition of over 100 works opens with portraits from Goya's age - including one by him of a voluptuous Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and another of him, by contemporary Vicente López, depicting the artist in dyspeptic old age. Francisco Pradilla's tempestuous 1877 painting of a grieving Queen Juana la Loca is perhaps the most striking of the exhibition's vast historical works. Their general heaviness is relieved in the last two galleries by the delightful impressionistic works of Mariano Fortuny and Joaquín Sorolla, including the latter's sun-dappled Young Boys on the Beach...
...ascend to the top of the establishment. Since her retirement six years ago, Chan's stature has barely diminished. With a patrician demeanor that can convey both hauteur and charisma, she is the paragon of the city's haute bourgeoisie. The city's working people treat her like a queen. And although she served in Hong Kong's first postcolonial administration until 2001, she adroitly kept a distance from its unpopular head, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. This, plus her advocacy of speedier democratic reforms in defiance of Beijing, has made her "the conscience of Hong Kong" in many eyes...