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...things about the Chancellor that would stop him from being a successful PM. He bears grudges; collegiality is not his strong suit; though less so now that he is married with a child, he sometimes seems to carry around an existential angst, as if a dirty, gray, west-of-Scotland sky was permanently moored above his unkempt locks. He does not make people feel comfortable. He does not have - as, even after Iraq, Tony Blair still does - the capacity to convince the solid, middle-class folk of southern England that he is one of them. He is, finally, more policy...
Want to head for the great outdoors but don't fancy sleeping in a drafty tent? Then try bedding down under snow instead. Mountain Innovations, tel: (44-1479) 831 331, a small trekking company based in Inverness-shire, Scotland, runs "snow-holing" holidays?where your bed is literally gouged out of the permafrost. Groups are kept to a maximum of eight people and, after a compulsory day of winter-skills training, embark upon a two-day expedition over the Cairngorm and Cairn Lochan mountains to the Ben Macdui plateau, where your accommodation is constructed...
...Snow is also a great reflector of light, so once we have the candles dotted around and the stove cooking the evening meal, it's not nearly as bad as one might expect," says a guide. And the reward for roughing it is the best wake-up call in Scotland: in the pristine winter air, from some of Britain's highest ground, there are panoramic views stretching 150 kilometers or more. The next snowy trek takes place March 12-14 and is priced at $508, including airport or train-station transfer and lodge accommodation when you're not snug...
Want to head for the great outdoors but don't fancy sleeping in a drafty tent? Then try bedding down under snow instead. Mountain Innovations, tel: (44-1479) 831 331, a small trekking company based in Inverness-shire, Scotland, runs "snow-holing" holidays - where your bed is literally gouged out of the permafrost. Groups are kept to a maximum of eight people and, after a compulsory day of winter-skills training, embark upon a two-day expedition over the Cairngorm and Cairn Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic...
...another portrait of his father. Whether Seif is Libya's future and his father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothèque. As a result, President Bush announced he would begin lifting economic sanctions against Libya. The European Union recently followed. "It was the right decision," says Seif of his father's new Western-friendly stance...