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...Dordogne. So he thought: "I'll do sunset over the garages round the back of me dad's house, rather than going and looking for somewhere that looks like art." Shaw paints places that should hold a jolly crowd, like pubs and community centers, but they are always shut, with just a few lights left burning. In his pictures, it is always 3 p.m. on a winter's day, the time when children walk home from school and the pubs are closed - the hour that Christ died and the sky went dark, as he was taught at Catholic primary school...
...need only glance at the recent business headlines to see the hurdles Malone, now chairman of Liberty Media, faces. In Britain the premium over-the-air service ITV Digital recently shut down, and each of the country's two big remaining cable companies, Telewest (in which Liberty holds a 25% stake) and NTL, is saddled with billions of dollars in debt. NTL bondholders rebuffed Malone earlier this year, and if he continues to be shut out of Britain, "there will be a serious piece missing" from his master plan, notes Gary Klesch, a London-based media investor and former Malone...
...should be, I resolved, after re-molding my custom-made sand lounge chair. My eyes, now covered with sunglasses, were still shut as they were directed towards the sun. My fingers started combing through the sand. My skin, and my friend’s, were both a bit darker. And then our conversation picked up again. We came up with summer resolutions: synchronize our schedules to maximize our dual beach exposure. Catch a boat to Catalina Island. Discover the foothills by hiking. Trade the books we were reading...
...that Chinese authorities may be encouraging the controversy to discredit him. One of the few Chinese players to make it overseas, Fan, who plays for the Scottish side Dundee, has criticized his home country's league for its outmoded ways. "This is a good way to get Fan to shut up," says a Chinese sportswriter based in Beijing. "Even if it's not true, he has been forced to lower his profile...
...Trap, as he is known, should shut it. His team didn't have the host nation's burning hunger to win. And, in his post-game harangue, the coach conveniently forgot to criticize his captain, Francesco Totti, for getting sent off for faking a foul in the Korean penalty area, and to fault his striker, Christian Vieri, for missing a couple of sitters in front of the goal...