Your guide for choosing gifts
January 2, 2010
“Maley didn’t need a lot of presents, and we knew the normal birthday gifts that you receive just get tossed aside,” her mother said. “She knew that these supplies for the animal shelter would be greatly appreciated.
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January 2, 2010
Tim Hart played a rich and important part in the revival and popularisation of traditional English folk music. He enjoyed great success as a founder member of the band Steeleye Span, who, together with Fairport Convention, pioneered an innovative form of English folk-rock, performing traditional songs on electric instruments
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Tim Hart: folk musician in the band Steeleye Span
January 2, 2010
This January I resolve to keep reminding myself that the Labour Party matters less with every passing week. The only and increasingly interesting political question is what the present Opposition will do with the working majority the voters will soon, surely, be handing it.
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Mercy can’t exist if distress has been abolished
January 2, 2010
Once again the vulnerability of air travel to terrorism has been exposed. The existing measures deployed for passenger security at airport security points didn’t stop the Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect who had explosives sewn into his underwear
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Profiling, not scanning, will stop potential plane bombers
January 2, 2010
It’s good, if you’re a university administrator, to keep a cool head when the word “hotbed” is being thrown at you. One admires that unnamed UCL official who dryly commented that if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had come to the UK intending to blow up planes, he would surely have done chemistry rather than mechanical engineering. The sad state of the failed bomber’s death-to-the-infidel underpants seems to bear that out.
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Our universities face a radical upheaval
January 2, 2010
I’m going to patent a device — worn around the neck like a cigarette girl’s tray — containing cloths for spill wipeage, a bin for nectarine peel, a rack for discarded tea mugs. It’s called the MummyMaid.
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No, my home won’t be a hotel for grown-up kids
January 2, 2010
Even though it is still Christmas and we all know that nobody is reading newspapers, I’m still not going to just do my new year’s resolutions and call that a column.
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Please excuse this column. My brain has died
January 2, 2010
“An only life”, said Philip Larkin, “can take so long to climb clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never.” Few have a worse beginning than the 50,000 children in care in Britain. All of them have suffered the disruption of losing their natural parents, many of them within traumatic memory. A difficult start in life often leads to poor behaviour and low attainment in education.
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Wrong Beginnings
January 2, 2010
Dozens of people were killed yesterday when a man drove a vehicle packed with explosives across a field and detonated them. The dead and wounded were entirely helpless players and spectators in a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan
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The Gathering Storm
December 31, 2009
As we wrap up this year, the Juggle would like to thank all of you for your readership, insight and always-engaging conversation. We also thought it would be interesting to take a look back at the most popular posts of the past year, in terms of views and comments. (“Most-viewed” and “most-commented” posts are often quite different.) The top most-viewed posts were mainly about big names ( Serena Williams , David Letterman, Bristol Palin ) or events in the news (the Baby Einstein refund ), as Juggle newbies discovered the blog through search engines.
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The Most Popular Juggle Posts of the Year
December 30, 2009
As captain of the passenger ship Exodus, Yitzhak Aharonovitch played a crucial role in an event that came to symbolise the Jewish struggle for a homeland. In 1947 the Exodus left France for Palestine — then governed by British mandate — with 4,515 survivors of the Holocaust on board, but as it neared the port of Haifa, British naval forces surrounded it and opened fire, killing three people.
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Yitzhak Aharonovitch: captain of the the Holocaust survivor ship Exodus
December 28, 2009
My husband and I recently saw the South Carolina Repertory Company production of “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.” Before the play, Hank Haskell, treasurer, announced that the Hilton Head Island Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee had recommended no funding for the company. That announcement caused an audible gasp from the packed audience and caused us to write this letter to The Island Packet and to Hilton Head Island Mayor Tom Peeples asking you to do everything in your power to reverse this gross oversight.
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Repertory company deserves bed-tax grant
December 22, 2009
Associated Press A scene from the film “A Christmas Carol.” I was recently reading this piece on the Huffington Post, in which the author, Alison Gilbert, discusses the difficulties during the holidays of parents who no longer have their own parents. “What happens,” she writes, “if the month of December serves not only to remind you of all things Merry — but of all the people you’ve lost?” I could relate to the circumstances of the post. You see, I’m a parent of a 7-year old son, but over the past two decades, I’ve lost both of my parents and my in-laws.
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Ghost of Christmas Past: Dealing With the Holidays After a Personal Loss
December 16, 2009
You know that funny thing the Prime Minister does with jaw and tongue while talking: dropping the jaw between words, as though tongue were being plunged into nether gums? I’d never observed the habit in any other human being until doing my homework for this week’s Great Lives programme on Radio 4. Our chosen (fallen) hero was the 20th-century American playwright Tennessee Williams; and, though I love Williams the playwright, I knew little about the man
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The jaw-dropping truth about Gordon
December 16, 2009
As a piece of legal grotesquerie, the attempted arrest of the former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has its funny side. The biggest joke lies in the role of the UN. It was the UN Human Rights Council that endorsed the report by the retired South African judge Richard Goldstone on the Gaza conflict, in which Israel as well as Hamas was accused of war crimes
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Hardliners realise Britain is a soft touch
December 12, 2009
Whoever leaked that clutch of Climategate emails last month must be laughing his socks off. For he has unleashed upon the rest of us the phenomenon of the born-again climate sceptic, the kind of man (always a man, almost invariably wearing a tweed jacket) who now materialises beside me at parties and confides that he has been having second thoughts about climate change.
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If climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin
December 9, 2009
Disclosure: I paid for everything with my own money except for my birthday gifts, which were paid for by my friends.
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Collective Haul: Birthday Gifts, LUSH, Sephora & Forever 21
December 6, 2009
Photo Gifts: Any man would love a birthday gift made from his favorite photo. Some of the most popular photo birthday gifts for men include coffee cups, mousepads, puzzles, luggage tags, and photo books. You can also order cards, …
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November 22, 2009
http://greatbirthdaygiftsformen.wordpress.com/ Buying gifts for men can be difficult. Buying for women is so much easier! You know the routine
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Great birthday gifts for men Manly Christmas Gift Baskets For Him
November 20, 2009
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you will know that the world has gone blood-sucking crazy… It seems every other girl has fallen in love with all things vampire! Dark, brooding and with a 21st century twist of actually having a soul, we’ve come to love the walking undead on our cinema screens (with Twilight and now The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and even in our living rooms (with gritty TV show True Blood). To reflect this new-found obsession, I’ve found a great selection of vampire inspired products, from Bella’s Moonstone Necklace , inspired by the beautiful ring the pale-skinned heroine wears in the Twilight films, to True Love Necklace, a full red heart made of Murano glass that glistens blood red in the light.
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Twilight: Here comes the New Moon!