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Royal Opera House, London WC2Coliseum, London WC2In Act One of The Sleeping Beauty, shortly after her first entrance, the ballerina dancing Princess Aurora faces one of the hardest tests in the classical canon. Presented with (Read More)
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When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of th (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
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They keep our homes warm in style, and are a renewable energy source to boot. What's not to like about wood-burning stoves, asks Dominic Murphy Why buy one? It's potentially carbon neutral. Although burning logs releases CO2, (Read More)
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The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companiesIn a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the p (Read More)
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Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle b (Read More)
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• Body discovered after fire in flat • Transsexual was at heart of carabinieri blackmail caseItalian police are investigating the murder of a Brazilian transsexual caught up in a drugs and prostitution scandal that forced the (Read More)
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Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicineIt goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the fi (Read More)
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Who do you call when you want to call Europe? After five years of wrangling designed to deal with the Henry Kissinger question, the EU last night failed to provide a satisfactory answer. The first ever president of the Europe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Lou Bendrick Given the ire I provoked in last year’s turkey column, it’s high time that this Grist columnist acknowledges that:A. Meat-centric holidays such as Thanksgiving can be challenging for vegetarians and evoke all (Read More)
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Industrial revolution power house shakes off dirty image with high scores on recycling, green space and tackling climate changeA city once wreathed in smoke and deafened by shipyard steel-hammers, has transformed itself into (Read More)
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Regrets hung in the air, but don't dismiss the Queen's speech as a packet of fag-end gestures. Many of these bills could passNot dead yet. Alive, alive-O was Labour's message heralded by trumpets. Though delivered in deathly (Read More)
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Those feeling guilty about flying to Copenhagen (Dilemma of Copenhagen, 17 November) could take the two-mile bus trip from the airport to the Bella Centre, where the climate conference will be held. This will avoid a taxi or (Read More)
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10,000 addicts a day visit sprawling settlement as lawlessness takes overTwo men are asleep on a filthy mattress under the weak autumn sunshine. Another, in ragged clothes with his skin stained dark by the sun and dirt, lies (Read More)
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Baroness Buscombe's speech to the annual conference of the Society of EditorsLast year Paul Dacre told you what he described was a "grotesquely hubristic confession" that from the moment he was born he had wanted to be an Edi (Read More)
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