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'My son was in danger. So was I'

'We had the press on our doorstep. We had fighting between members of the family, we had the detectives doing their job, well or badly or whatever,' says André Hanscombe. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The picture is attractive – pale skin, a drift of ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Independent Police Complaints Commission

Margaret Haywood: 'A double agent, that's what I was'

Margaret Haywood near her home in Liverpool. Photograph: Christopher Thomond The leaf-strewn streets are empty in the afternoon, and a visitor to this modest terrace cannot be missed; Margaret Haywood comes to the door and lets me in before I have a ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Liverpool F.C.,  National Health Service,  BBC,  Everton F.C.,  Dixie Dean

Out of Ethiopia: film-makers and the weight of memory

It is a truism that – agitprop and now tribunal plays aside – it takes quite some time for traumatic events, personal or political, to filter into a culture. Distance is key; time for healing, for perspective, for the discovery of an appropriate idiom. ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

Michael Green: Master of the universe

Thanks to Michael for the link. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/24/michael-green-new-lucasian-professor Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge – following in the footsteps of Newton and Hawking. So does the ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM - GUARDIAN.CO.UK, RichardDawkins.net,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Michael Green,  CERN,  John Schwarz,  Harrison Ford

Master of the universe

Professor Michael Green, who succeeds Stephen Hawking to take up the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge University. Photograph: Martin Godwin The history of scientific discovery has an alternate history of ifs, many quite quotidian: if the ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Michael Green,  Cambridge University,  Stephen Hawking,  Isaac Newton,  Edward Witten

The Heene family aren't the first balloon-based hoaxers: Edgar Allan Poe did it in 1844

An artist's impression of Edgar Allan Poe's "aerial machine", the Victoria Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Quite why the Heene family of Colorado thought pretending to lose their son in the basket of an airborne helium balloon was a good idea ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Edgar Allan Poe

Jo Brand: 'Only thin women ask me that'

Jo Brand: ‘People say that women aren’t funny, and a bit of me wanted to prove them wrong.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin Jo Brand's autobiography begins with an incident most people would be shaken by even if they had just dreamed it: she is standing in ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Jo Brand,  Stephen Fry,  Marlon Brando

Church 'treats gay clergy as problem'

Gene Robinson, the Espiscopalian bishop of New Hampshire, says gay and lesbian clerby are treated by the Church of England as a problem to be solved. Photograph: Graeme Robertson The first openly gay bishop in the Anglican communion has launched an ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Gene Robinson,  Rowan Williams

Shellsuits are back!

­Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Fidel Castro have both been spotted in shellsuits. A new trend? Photograph: AFP/Getty/PA Eagle-eyed observers of the world stage have noted that the shellsuit seems to be making a return among men of a certain age. Namely, ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Fidel Castro

The perfect Crete retreat

It would be churlish to complain about the long tubes of white plastic, like chunky, sun-deprived caterpillars, that take up every available tract of flat land (they are, after all, protecting crops, and thus local livelihoods), but once you've ...

From AIDA EDEMARIAM, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Vangelis (musician)

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