Word: telegraphe
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...more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise that he told a reporter in April 2001 that writing after Corelli was like "being stood stark naked in Trafalgar Square and being told to get an erection." Britain's Daily Telegraph went so far as to call the release of his new novel "the adult equivalent of the launch of a Harry Potter book." That's a lot of pressure, and unfortunately de Bernières doesn't live up to it. The book's setting is promising enough. De Berni...
...hopes to raise €1.8 billion in July from the sale of a 30% stake in its Pages Jaunes directories business. Seems they've found the market's number. - By Adam Smith Expensive Scoop Chicago-based newspaper publisher Hollinger International agreed to sell the Telegraph Group - including Britain's Daily Telegraph - to the U.K.'s Barclay brothers for $1.2 billion. Hollinger's controlling shareholder, ousted chairman Conrad Black, may yet try to block the deal...
News of the scandal spread quickly, making headlines in papers ranging from The New York Times to London’s Daily Telegraph...
...White House has been steadily losing patience with its former client. The beginning of the end came in February when Chalabi was quoted in a London Daily Telegraph article saying that even if the intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs that Chalabi passed to the U.S. before the war was faulty, it was "not important," compared to the end result of toppling Saddam. "We were heroes in error," he said in the article. Chalabi insists he was misquoted, but the damage was done. "That set the President off," a senior Administration official told TIME. The general feeling among...
...girls. Stranded in their Russian backwater town, the three sisters of Chekhov's play famously yearn for Moscow, their hopes for love and life all the while fading to gray. Perhaps the most in need of medication is youngest sister Irina, who clocks up dismal hours in the local telegraph office and whose loveless engagement to an army lieutenant ends when he is killed in a duel. With her limpid eyes and languid limbs, Rose Byrne was born to play Irina - as she did in a shrill but memorable Sydney Theatre Company production in 2001. Like a sunflower starved...