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British Prime Minister John Major last week dared his Conservative rivals to "put up or shut up," and today, the Tories put up. John Redwood, a right-wing member of Major's own Cabinet, resigned his post (Welsh Secretary) and declared his candidacy for the Conservative leadership contest that Major himself had boldly scheduled for July 4. Redwood's move ended the appearance of Cabinet unity that Major's supporters had hoped would ensure him victory. The fight now centers on rightist opposition to Britain's economic intergration with Europe. Redwood, a standard-bearer for the Euro-skeptics, read...
...most important Wright-designed project never executed in his lifetime. Monona Terrace is a five-level, semicircular, 1.8 hectare convention center now under construction at the edge of Lake Monona in Madison. Wright spent his youth in the state capital, which is about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright a special feeling for Monona Terrace. Between 1938 and 1958, he designed at least four different versions of the project. (His pupil and son-in-law William Wesley Peters produced another...
...that he will not be extradited to Singapore, where he was working when he executed the trades. Leeson is being held in a German prison. His lawyer said he might give British authorities information that would lead to an arrest warrant for his client. University of Pennsylvania law professor Welsh White told TIME Daily that although he has never heard of a defense attorney seeking an indictment of his client, he understands why Kempf is doing so, since the British justice system is not as harsh as Singapore...
Even without resurgent anti-Semitism, nobody believes Jewish life in Central Europe will ever be what it was before the Holocaust. The world of the shtetl is lost; the Yiddish language is becoming as inaccessible as Welsh or Aramaic; the Jews of Marc Chagall's paintings are gone forever. ``You cannot revive Jewish culture here,'' says Russia's Gerber. ``You cannot revive something that is finished.'' Others are troubled that the youthful embrace of Judaism is only rarely a question of faith. ``A lot of them want to be Jewish without the religion,'' complains Rabbi Jozsef Schweitzer, head of Budapest...
...steal by Welsh international Ryan Giggs which led to the Cantona goal, an inch-perfect strike just inside the crossbar and the right goalpost...