... Students’ rival list of novels speaks volumes Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner’s The Sound and:the Py i oCoi But while the Modern Library has Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and Robert Graves' /, Claudius, Radcliffe has . Alice Walker's The Color ...

... Clark speaks of sleight of hand on arms sales THE FORMER trade and defence minister Alan Clark acknowledged yesterday that his witness statement in the Matrix Churchill arms to Iraq trial had contained ‘“an element of sleight of hand”. He told Lord Justice ...

... Shock . . . horror. . . Fed speaks its mind IT IS a little like that famous movie slogan: “Garbo Speaks”. The Federal Reserve Board, America’s central bankers, have taken to shocking the world by saying what they're doing. Twice in two months, they’ve ...

... BADMINTON Rejected Travers speaks his mind DAN TRAVERS, Scotland’s most-capped player, has hit out at the Scottish Badminton Union after being overlooked for the post of director of coaching and development, writes Roddy Mackenzie. Travers — who 'was ...

... The Scosman 1 3 An advocate of plain speaking Even when at the very top of his profession, Gordon Stott voiced a healthy disregard for some aspects of the law and the legal profession. Now he presents his own entertaining case, says John Robertson TRAIGHT ...

... Developing lines of communication through plain speaking ECONOMICS was once referréd to as .the dismal-sciénce; no doubt by someone who. found himself irapped and far from an exit at a conference on economiess e g e ) f _Bearing this ‘in:mind and ‘pleading ...

... This anecdote is important in that it illustrates Ferri’s propensity to speak ...

... her from speaking her own mind HE arena of Northern Ireland politics is not a milieu where women thrive. It is almost exclusively a male domain; of the 17 parliamentary seats not one is occupied by a woman. Rhonda Paisley is an exception. She has been ...

... Euro-speak left prince none the wiser IF LOOKS are anything to go by, the Prince of Wales was thoroughly baffled yesterday. by his sudden immersion in the 3 “I‘-huu'ml:hoeo-fldw Euro-MPs at a dinner s‘fl’‘lfll ‘Tuesday night. “But to be honest I 't understand ...

... Birt speaks of further BBC cost cutting THE BBC’s director-general, John Birt, yesterday renewed his onslaught, the hallmark of his regime, on bureaucracy. Overheads must continue to be stripped. The BBC's annual report disclosed that the battle had resulted ...

... ‘I speak with anger and a lotoflmr':se Allan Boesak: *.in my heart summoned to the Swedish embassy in Cape Town to be'})resented with ‘the report of an investigation into the FPJ’s use of the g:and indinavian money. .- /Among:the allegations. made against ...

... PROFESSIONAL BRIEF Speaking in tongues or just jargonising? CCASIONALLY, I have to attend The Scotsman editorial conferences as a proxy for the business editor. These daily conferences are characterised by lively debate over what should constitute the ...