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Yeltsin bows out in style for heir

... retiring,” he said on Russian man struggling :finlnst enorstate television, looking palebut “mous odds to build a perfect speaking clearly. “Russia must Russia but failing through no go into the next millennium fault of his own. “I want to ask with new ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 597 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Very Reverend Richard Holloway

... the - - ‘people of the world will learn to - - work together.” .~ | .0 ‘Magnus Linklater “Scottish Arts Council chairman “SPEAKING as a Scot, I hope that we can have a parliament to be . proud:of - a Scotland that stays _ within the boundaries of the ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

A house in order?

... distinctive: blocand operate very much as a group, passing notes and listening attentively when one of their number gets up to speak. Labour MSPs tend: ‘to form little knots based on rhvz;i()nal tigs (Stirling next to Ochil, for. example) or personal friendships’ ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 934 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

From Page 1

... been farmers, social workers, sin(g)e parents,” complained one former Labour councillor. “Then they tore us apart for not speaking as well as professional politicians.” SR ~ Most MSPs are at their best on practical or local issues they feel confident about ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Lesley Downer = . What on earth canthe proposl of this urknown e be, | wonder? Marriage, perhaps? ... Possible, ..

... Marriage, perhaps? Possible, but unlikely’ particularly exciting about his proposal. It turns out, when we finally get to speak, that Steed is in litigation. He is suing one of the biggest Japanese business moguls, a sort of Mohammed al-Fayed of Japan ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 763 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Moon. Nevertheless, itis a remarkably pre- *and back again.” Mr Bedford’s last-minute incubators and brought up ..

... Itis, then, at ~much worse, if at all, than a polar expedi- who is unhappy with his‘Alpha-Plus status. least technically speaking, nota work of sci- “tion.” And so they boldly go, as somany eas- ~On a visit to a New Mexican Reservation he ence fiction ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

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... didn’t realise he loved until it was too late - which gave Edmond the form ; to put her in the race to begin with, so to. speak. That was back in 1996. Since then there’s been a supporting role to John Thaw as a bright young legal eagle in ITV’s Kavanagh ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

Prince Charles’s Scots Hogmanay ANDREW WALKER

... made a L{:)ke about that.” Dorothy Innes, the centre’s director, said: “It's been a wonderful visit. He made a lot of time to speak to all the patients. They have thoroughly enjoyed his visit and has boosted morale.” The g;icnce accepted an invitation to ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

When you've had more jobs than hot dinners, what's your next move? Take a bus tour incyberspace..

... backbone. After a year of careful planning and dry-running literary and historical be launched on the internet shortly. Roughly speaking, all-scotland.com is a fusion of the traditional bus tour, albeit in a fleet of luxury coaches, with some of the more inventive ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

The fruits of hard labour

... talents is difficult to achieve and cops don't need permission to kick your head in. Bunker is 65 now. He had no education to speak of, despite an IQ of 152, spent 18 years locked up, was a violent youth who became hooked on literature and heroin - he doesn't ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Putin displays cool head and killer instinct

... University in 1975 and began a high-flying ‘career in one of the most pres‘tigious Soviet organisations - the KGB. . Mr Putin, who speaks fluent German, spent four years working as a spy in the KGB's Berlin-Kdrlshorst rezidentura, or headquarters, in East Germany ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Poet prepared for the party

... tnEs _.to everyone, to the newborn,, -&Ml nn o T B ~to the survivors, the maimed and the lame, =~~~ . for them to'sée and speak, -= 1 uFy Re UL R e _ for them to survive and traverse, ~=., .o DS - - for them to seize the future fruit - = -7/ v o LT of ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 27 | Tags: none