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PARIS - The United Nations' agency for culture and education remains undecided about who will be UNESCO's next leader. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says on its Web site that a third round of voting Saturday at its Paris headquarters was inconclusive, as no candidate won the needed majority of 58 votes cast. A fourth round is scheduled Monday.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says on its Web site that a third round of voting Saturday at its Paris headquarters was inconclusive, as no candidate won the needed majority of 58 votes cast. A fourth round is scheduled Monday.
Farouk Hosni (the alleged frontrunner) is an ass, and it would be a shame if he won, but not for the reasons that have generally been cited in opposition to him. There are much better reasons.
MADRID -- Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday. The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement. Cohen was part-way through his song "Bird on the Wire" in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped. [...] The Canadian-born musician, who will be 75 years-old on Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but released early Saturday, Barcelona-based Doctor Music Concerts said.[...] Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.
MADRID -- Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday.
The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement.
Cohen was part-way through his song "Bird on the Wire" in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped.
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The Canadian-born musician, who will be 75 years-old on Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but released early Saturday, Barcelona-based Doctor Music Concerts said.
Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.
The gruesome botching of an execution in Ohio on Tuesday, when technicians tried but failed to find a vein in a Death Row inmate through which to administer the required mortal fluids, is casting a fresh spotlight on the flaws in America's system of capital punishment system at a time when public support for it may already be flagging. Lawyers for Romell Broom, convicted in the 1984 rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl abducted in Cleveland, were successful in blocking the state's plans to have a second go at dispatching him by lethal injection in three days' time, for the surreal reason that one week is not enough time for him to recover from his near-death. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order yesterday, effective for 10 days.
The gruesome botching of an execution in Ohio on Tuesday, when technicians tried but failed to find a vein in a Death Row inmate through which to administer the required mortal fluids, is casting a fresh spotlight on the flaws in America's system of capital punishment system at a time when public support for it may already be flagging.
Lawyers for Romell Broom, convicted in the 1984 rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl abducted in Cleveland, were successful in blocking the state's plans to have a second go at dispatching him by lethal injection in three days' time, for the surreal reason that one week is not enough time for him to recover from his near-death. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order yesterday, effective for 10 days.
A solicitor who devoted herself to improving the lives of hundreds of disabled and elderly care-home residents has won a historic battle which had threatened to end her career. Yvonne Hossack, 53, was yesterday cleared of professional misconduct after local councils, angered by her successful campaigns to stop the closure of care homes, mounted a "witch- hunt" to get her removed from the solicitors' roll. The case has given hope to thousands of other professional campaigners and charities which work against the odds to improve the lives of disabled and elderly people.
A solicitor who devoted herself to improving the lives of hundreds of disabled and elderly care-home residents has won a historic battle which had threatened to end her career.
Yvonne Hossack, 53, was yesterday cleared of professional misconduct after local councils, angered by her successful campaigns to stop the closure of care homes, mounted a "witch- hunt" to get her removed from the solicitors' roll.
The case has given hope to thousands of other professional campaigners and charities which work against the odds to improve the lives of disabled and elderly people.
Campaigning Kettering lawyer Yvonne Hossack cleared of misconduct - Northants ET
Deputy leader of Northamptonshire County Council Cllr Joan Kirkbride said: "This case was never about an attempt to deny a voice to some of our most vulnerable people. We all have the needs of those receiving care at the centre of everything we do."This case was to make sure that the legal codes of conduct and that the legal profession's own regulations were adhered to. We fully accept the findings of the hearing."
Right.... Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Through President Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, Whitewater and Kenneth W. Starr, some liberals have craved their own class warrior, a Rush Limbaugh for the left who would take the fight unapologetically to the Republicans. But faced with Mr. Moore (and later, Keith Olbermann) they recoil, claiming that kind of aggressiveness is somehow at odds with the notion of being a liberal. In a famous attack, Pauline Kael wrote that "Roger & Me" was "gonzo demagoguery that made me feel cheap for laughing." Funny -- none of Rush's listeners ever say that about him. "I don't think they like a guy who is hovering around 300 pounds and walks around in a ball cap who comes from a factory town and talks like where he comes from," Mr. Moore said over lunch in Toronto the day before his premiere here. "People want to have polite conversation at their wine-and-cheese functions." -Skip- After the screening in Toronto, Mr. Moore took questions from audience members eager to know exactly what they should do. He offered some broad suggestions, stressing that he worried that Democrats in the United States would begin to abandon Mr. Obama (whom he enthusiastically supports) now that the election is won. Pushed harder on Mr. Obama, a gradualist seemingly out of step with Mr. Moore's radical agenda of scrapping capitalism, Mr. Moore only said that he hoped for the best, but feared the influence of Goldman Sachs on the administration. Finally, he just shrugged. "You know," he said, "the next movie may be about him."
But faced with Mr. Moore (and later, Keith Olbermann) they recoil, claiming that kind of aggressiveness is somehow at odds with the notion of being a liberal. In a famous attack, Pauline Kael wrote that "Roger & Me" was "gonzo demagoguery that made me feel cheap for laughing." Funny -- none of Rush's listeners ever say that about him.
"I don't think they like a guy who is hovering around 300 pounds and walks around in a ball cap who comes from a factory town and talks like where he comes from," Mr. Moore said over lunch in Toronto the day before his premiere here. "People want to have polite conversation at their wine-and-cheese functions."
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After the screening in Toronto, Mr. Moore took questions from audience members eager to know exactly what they should do. He offered some broad suggestions, stressing that he worried that Democrats in the United States would begin to abandon Mr. Obama (whom he enthusiastically supports) now that the election is won.
Pushed harder on Mr. Obama, a gradualist seemingly out of step with Mr. Moore's radical agenda of scrapping capitalism, Mr. Moore only said that he hoped for the best, but feared the influence of Goldman Sachs on the administration. Finally, he just shrugged.
"You know," he said, "the next movie may be about him."
