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...Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams: "The fact that such a large judgment has been returned in such a highly publicized case may well be an inducement to more plaintiffs to bring more lawsuits seeking more money." As for the Enquirer, it vows no slackening of its editorial zeal. Says Editor Iain Calder: "Our job is to provide our readers with interesting, informative and accurate articles, and this is what we will continue to do." Counters Burnett: "That was an expensive dinner at the Rive Gauche...
With Scottish pride still bruised following the inconclusive "devolution" referendum to give the region more autonomy, Scotsmen were rallying to save little lona; Scottish Nationalist M.P. Iain McCormick, representing Argyll, called for the government...
Nice Irony. Worried not only about Hills but about the fate of 700 other British citizens residing in Uganda, Britain's Labor Government dispatched to Kampala two royal envoys who seemed well-suited to the assignment: Lieut. General Sir Chandos Blair, 56, and retired Major Iain Grahame, 43, who were Amin's military commanders when he was a soldier in the now. disbanded King's African Rifles. When the envoys reached Kampala, they were greeted by a guard of honor and a military band. Amin was off at a rally in honor of African Refugee Day. This...
...Iain Ross, a white British citizen born in Uganda, began turning his job over to a black man. For six years Ross had been chief warden of the Kidepo Valley National Park, 500 sq. mi. of wilderness near the border of Sudan and Kenya. Animals roam free there under park protection, but are in danger from poachers. Outside the park, a conflict splutters and periodically burns between Uganda and Tanzania, like the brushfires that menace the park itself...
Richard Morant, as Gerald Flashman, is an ideal smirking cruel dandy, and Iain Cuthbertson, as the headmaster Doctor Arnold, presents an acceptable outward resemblance to the pious Victorian reformer. But in attempting to portray Arnold at all on television, problems arise that Hughes never faced in his novel. On a TV screen there is no way to show the headmaster as he appeared to a 12-year-old boy. So taking refuge in a stereotype is pardonable, even if the stereotype is something of a distortion...