Your guide for choosing gifts
January 3, 2010
Our diplomatic war of words with Iran is brewing nicely. Last week the foreign secretary, David Miliband, condemned as “disturbing” the Ahmadinejad regime’s “lack of restraint” in its treatment of pro-democracy demonstrators. Tehran’s response was not long in coming: it retorted that “Britain will get slapped in the mouth if it does not stop its nonsense”.
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Ooh, that David Miliband, he’ll scratch your eyes out
January 3, 2010
There was something both sad and ironic about the prime minister’s attempt to sell Labour as the party of optimism in his new year message last week. Not just because he is the embodiment of dourness, and not just because there isn’t a lot to be optimistic about
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Labour’s fixation with control is strangling everyone
January 3, 2010
There are, it seems, limits to the ability of the average Briton not to spend. After a year of tightening our belts and holding back on consumption, it feels as if the country is simply going to the shops — a rush that would have defied belief a year ago when it was the gloomiest Christmas for retailers since, well, the previous recession.
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We’re on a binge diet of sales – so it’s joy now, pain later
January 3, 2010
In among all the gloomy predictions for the next decade is one that is astonishingly cheering. In the near future neurologists will be able to halt the process of Alzheimer’s disease
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It’s a no-brainer – bring on the pills that will make us smarter
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
January 1, 2010
Kids in Christmas expect gifts that are truly fabulous and exciting. As they love to prance about and of sportive nature so the best way of finding gifts for them is by considering the Christmas gifts for kids . …
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Christmas Gifts for Kids: Exciting and Inspirational Christmas …
January 1, 2010
This kid goes crazy when he unwraps his N64. Funny! For more, Go to http://SisselMedia.com. Plus, watch episodes from Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show,…
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Kid Freaks Out over Christmas Present
December 31, 2009
The two Andover men arrested March 25 for cooking methamphetamine have pled guilty and will be sentenced nearly a year after federal agents raided a Lowell Street home and uncovered their small meth lab. Jay Keough and Ryan Emmett each face up to 20 years in prison.
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UPDATE ON ’09: Meth lab home now on the market to be sold
December 31, 2009
Think it’s cold just walking around this week? How about taking a dip in the Atlantic Ocean on New Year’s Day in South Boston? That’s what 20-year-old Hannah Stidsen of Andover plans to do when she takes part in The Polar Plunge, which raises money for Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine.
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Andover woman is freezin’ for a good reason, to help kids’ camp
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
More about this episode: www.bbc.co.uk Stand-up comedy from the Hammersmith Apollo. Irish gem Ed Byrne hosts in front of a 3500-strong audience, with guest appearances from Adam Hills and London’s own Gina Yashere.
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Wedding Gifts – Live at the Apollo – BBC One
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