Both Monty, like former Masters champion Mike Weir, is five behind, the same margin adrift as Justin Leonard was at the same stage at Troon in 1997. Colin Montgomerie, on his home course, was roared on by the Scottish gallery but for the second day running missed a short putt at the last to [...]
It was all the more galling as the Irish had hauled themselves up from a disastrous start to the campaign which had cost Mick McCarthy his job. The defeat meant the Swiss went through and they, of course, were also in England’s group at the Euros, which provided another useful scouting mission for Hughton. [...]
“I know I gave him the No 7 shirt and comparisons are inevitable, but I see Juninho more as a goalmaker, not a scorer,” said the Celtic manager.Juninho’s tricky running will augment Petrov’s more direct style, and the 24-year-old could not be happier with Celtic’s latest recruit. “When you see Juninho in training, you [...]
Albinoni tootled and rasped from a couple of speakers, a commanding and patriarchal narcissist (his blouse more voluminous, his hair iron grey) strode on to the dusty sward. “I don’t like your big boots,” sneered Luther (aged three), it was an inauspicious opening.The Albinoni cut out, and using a hand mic, the falconer gave [...]
“I went for a crazy one and paid the price but I think today I was just a bit too cocky,” said Maguire. I was so proud when I played here for the first time against Jason Ferguson about seven years ago.”There must have been about 500 watching today and it makes you proud [...]
“All we want is to pick our olives and live in peace,” she says.But even down here in the valley, well inside the Palestinian side of the green line, the olive harvest, like that of the figs and grapes at other times of the year, is a hazardous business. Mrs Nemiah’s relative, Ibrahim Shaibani, [...]
“When we interviewed them, we promised that we would come and help them. But we just don’t have the resources.”Earlier this year on a tour of the country, Weila stopped in a village to speak to a slave woman. It’s Weila’s mission to convince slaves that they can live independently, without fear of reprisals [...]
If that is to be prevented in future disasters, the development of the coasts of the Indian and other oceans will have to be rethought.Coral reefs and mangroves will have to be preserved and, where possible, regenerated, but the danger is that the lesson has not been learnt and the developers will move in [...]
And if you do not go along with the view that the latest popular cause is more important than any other, you will be attacked as unfeeling – unfit for your job, even, if you happen to be prime minister and fail to rush back from your holiday.This was a rare lapse on the [...]
Paid for at full whack, January 2005 sales in the quality sector were: Times 515,000, Telegraph 502,000, Guardian 307,000 and Independent 186,000.The Sunday market is more patchy. Year-on-year sales are up for The Sunday Times and The Independent on Sunday, for the Express and Mail, and down for the rest Sales are down 1.9 [...]
