Machiavelli, Medici Come Alive In Rushdie’s Siren Song: Review
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Akbar the Great, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo de’Medici spring to life in Salman Rushdie’s culture- spanning new novel, each falling under the spell of the siren who steals men’s hearts and the book’s title.
“The Enchantress of Florence” takes the form of a story within a story, borrowing from the history and myths of both East [...]
Mourinho, O’neill Are Favorites For England Coach Job
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English soccer officials began their search for a new national team coach by saying they won’t restrict themselves to home-grown candidates.
The Football Association fired Steve McClaren today after England missed out on a place at next year’s European Championship by losing 3-2 at home to Croatia last night.
McClaren was appointed last year amid a media [...]
Flatfoot Becomes Torturer In Kertesz Novella Kafka Would Love
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“Detective Story” has all the elements that its title implies: crime, cops and jail cells. Except the cops here are the secret police, and the real crime is how they torture suspects and corrupt political power.
In this lithe, menacing novella, the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author quickly spells out who, what, when, where and how. The [...]
Cheerleaders, Laker Love Would Rile Reds Ghost Scott Soshnick
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Greetings from inside the visitors locker room at TD Banknorth Garden, home of Boston’s professional basketball team, the most successful franchise in NBA history.
“Everything is cool,” says Lamar Odom. “We’ve been shown nothing but love.”
Love? For the Lakers? In this town? It’s a good thing Celtics legend Red Auerbach, whose signature is inscribed on the [...]
Update 1-Australia’s Jb Hi-Fi Lifts Profit F’cast, Shares Up
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Australian home electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi Ltd (JBH.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) raised its profit forecast for fiscal 2008 by as much as 12 percent on strong sales, solid margins and cost controls, sending its shares up over 5 percent.
The company, which started out selling car radios, said it expects a profit of around A$64 million [...]
Getting Down With The Oldies Dancefest At Mccain Headquarters
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The blogosphere’s buzzing tonight with news that the McCain campaign is using the music of ABBA to woo disaffected Clinton voters. The excitement began with the “news leak” that Sen. McCain is fond of the Swedish popsters.
If McCain really wanted to capitalize on some Democrats’ disaffection with Obama’s victories, there’s an entire library of oldies [...]
Carrie And The Girls Take Tt By Storm
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The movie is a tale of sex, love, couture, friendship, forgiveness and the possibility of a modern- day fairytale ending, as told through the eyes of four NYC women. The Sex and the City movie is an adaptation of the HBO hit series which itself was based on the book by Candace Bushnell about real [...]
Love Song At Circa
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Funny, enchanting and wonderfully touching, John Kolvenbach’s offbeat comedy Love Song is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms.The NZ premiere of this very funny and sexy comedy opens in CIRCA TWO on Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm, and runs until 19th July.
Beane is eccentric - an outsider from life – [...]
Mere Baap Pehle Aap Music Review
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Bob’s rap in the background with Alisha Chinoy as Neeraj’s partner further makes the song instantly attractive which makes ‘Ishq Subhan Allah’ a track which could be next Akshaye Khanna hit after ‘Pehli Nazar Mein’ [Race]. However, though ‘Pehli Nazar’ was a love song, ‘Ishq Subhan Allah’ falls under the dance track category. The ‘remix [...]
Tilly And The Wall Children Of The Rock
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Remembering to be a kid is a huge part of rock. The Who made an anthem out of it. Kurt Cobain had a ‘k’ tattooed on his arm. Kids know what’s up, largely because they don’t know what ‘up’ is yet. Tilly and the Wall’s guitarist Derek Presnall elaborates, “People tend to focus on the [...]
