The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Danny Jordaan says England's World Cup bid needs a figurehead According to the man who won the 2010 World Cup for South Africa, England will need to make much better use of David Beckham in order to succeed in their bid to host the 2018 event. Danny Jordaan, chief executive of South Africa 2010, said: "David Beckham is quite influential in world football and that is what the England bid for 2018...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
While the impact of such contemporaries as Nelson Mandela on the events of the 20th century is firmly established in the public mind, the crucial role played the architect of glasnost is in danger of being overlooked At the Brandenburg Gate tomorrow evening in Berlin, one of the defining figures of the last century's history will sit down to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despicable Me Second trailer for this 3D animated comedy, and this time it's focusing on arch villain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) trying to break into the headquarters of a rival bad guy. This looks like fun and the bit with the shark had me howling. Check it out on July 9. Sherlock Holmes A second trailer for the new Holmes fllck with Robert Downey Jr. in the title role aided by Jude Law as Watson....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
'The closest I've come to death? Dreaming of drowning' Charles Dance , 64, was born in Worcestershire. He attended art college but, having taken acting lessons, went on to join the RSC. In 1984 he appeared in the television drama The Jewel In The Crown . His role in the television adaptation of Bleak House gained him an International Emmy nomination and the Press Guild award for best actor. His major...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
"OMG, I loved The Time Traveler's Wife. Don't tell anyone." Unsurprisingly, they prefer to read about great men: In Duff McDonald's Last Man Standing , JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon claims to have read biographies of Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, and ten U.S. presidents, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant. Meanwhile, Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big...
International Solidarity Movement (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Support Bil’in’s struggle “Just as a simple man named Ghandi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela led the struggle for civil rights in the United States, simple people here in Bil’in are leading a non-violent struggle that will bring them their freedom. The South Africa [...]
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Already our savvy forum moderators gave us their gutsy Oscars predix for best picture and lead actress. Now these pundits come out swinging over the lead actors' slugfest: Chris "Boomer" Beachum, Matthew "Boidiva02" Cormier, Darrin "DoubleD" Dortch, Robert "Rob L" Licuria, Andrew "andrew" Pickett and Paul Sheehan. Read the reax of our regular forum...
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hello Film Fans and Fanatics! Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday November 6, 2009! In limited release this week we have the Canadian documentary When We Were Boys , which following the lives of students at private boys school in Toronto. More docs to choose from with Inside Hana's Suitcase . If you are looking for comedy check out Gentlemen Broncos from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. Also...
Dine Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Celebrity Waiter evening- A smattering of celebrities caused a stir at the Meat & Wine Company Last night, a smattering of celebrities caused a stir at the Meat & Wine Company where they arrived to wait tables and provide entertainment for guests in order to raise funds for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. The celebrities [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
IT MUST be deliberate. Tito Mboweni , SA's vainest public official, turns up for an interview unshaven and wearing what appears to be a Nelson Mandela shirt. This is a huge departure for the South African Reserve Bank governor who is usually immaculately dressed in a suit and tie. Stunned, we ask if he is trying to copy Mandela. Mboweni retorts: "Of course Madiba would not wear this shirt."...
A WORLD TO WIN www.aworldtowin.net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
US born Muslim Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the army psychiatrist who turned his guns on his fellow soldiers at an army camp in Texas yesterday, was apparently unhappy about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. So the horror of Kabul, Baghdad and other cities where terrorist attacks kill scores of people on a daily basis has hit back, in a Texas military stronghold, of all places. But how is it, that 20...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Ed Balls sacks school's governing body after senior teachers allegedly paid themselves £1m in bonuses A headteacher who was knighted for services to education has resigned following claims that he and his senior colleagues mismanaged more than a million pounds of his school's funds. Sir Alan Davies, who received his knighthood in 2000, has stepped down from Copland Community School in Wembley,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The civic self-determination movements of the SNP and Plaid Cymru don't deserve the same label as far-right racists Nationalists, it seems, are everywhere and on the march. In the past seven days alone the Guardian has drawn our attention to nationalists in Israel, Poland, Cyprus, Russia, France, Bosnia and even within the ranks of the non-nasty British Conservative party. This, it is clear, is not...
IOL (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Nelson Mandela has been awarded the highest symbol of traditional leadership on the African continent.
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Congratulations to Placebo, U2, Jay-Z and Beyonce, who won the prizes for bothering to turn up to the MTV Europe awards. The prizes were handed out in Berlin, and it wasn't lost on anyone that this meant some sort of vague reference to the events of twenty years ago had to be written onto the autocue and read out in a slightly confused voice. Oh, and that Bono thing. The irony of what MTV did isn't...
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