Zhang’s extraordinary account tells us what it was like in plain wise sometimes even humorous prose It

Zhang’s extraordinary account tells us what it was like, in plain, wise, sometimes even humorous prose It is a terrifying story. A change in law last year, which was supposed to speed up some applications, has resulted in more people appealing and further delays.From 1984 to 1988 there were fewer than 20,000 applications In the following five years this rose to 130,000. She started the all-male Featherstonehaughs (pronounced Fanshaws) in 1988 because the Cholmondeleys were becoming pigeon-holed as of interest only to women. I didn’t have a badge but I suppose I could get one now.SEBASTIAN FAULKS, 40, novelist: I watched it, but I didn’t have a badge I remember the dog and Christopher Trace It was a bit sort of DIY for me.

The high-rise office in New Sarajevo long ago became a grisly blackened shell. I am reminded of an incident which happened on the pig farm of the late Sir Thomas Salt at Shillingstone in Dorset. Across the back of the photograph she had written: ‘Please find my son’s murderer’.Police have confirmed at least 40 of the 100 reported shooting incidents. Sir: The accusations of self-indulgence and political posturing in your modern dance article (‘Modern dance world split as ticket sales fall’, 19 October) ring true. It was a proposal for which there was ‘neither mandate nor necessity’, he said.Attempts to remove commitments to opening up the coal industry, bus services, and the post office to competition, and to breaking up British Telecom, were defeated..

He called himself a structuralist until structuralism became the vogue, and then he said he wasn’t one, really.Eribon’s biography of Foucault will be of interest to Foucault’s admirers, but it is not the place to start if you’re interested in testing the frothy waters of Foucault’s philosophy. Parents taking their children to this greener-than-thou entertainment over the summer holidays are likely to enjoy themselves more than they bargained for. ‘I remember falling into the machine and the baler chopping away at my leg,’ she said. IT WAS with mixed feelings last week that we learned, first, that the Malaysian Cabinet had ordered its elite Royal Malay Regiment to give up marching in the dull British fashion and adopt the exciting goose-step, and second, after due experiment, that they have rescinded the order. Next month, the Queen and President Francois Mitterrand inaugurate the Channel Tunnel In June, they meet again for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Captain Ivanov, you will recall, was the Soviet naval attache and secret agent for the GRU (Moscow’s military intelligence service) who in 1963 compromised Britain’s then war minister, John Profumo, in a high-society scandal that led to the downfall of Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government. The English East India Company was a band of South China Seas buccaneers who helped create the London money market, controlled half the world’s trade, recruited armed forces larger than those of most states and became a private empire that was the jewel in the British crown.

OFFICIAL figures yesterday painted a picture of extremely subdued price and wage pressures as the number of people out of work and claiming benefit dropped unexpectedly. Residents in multi-occupancy houses (or in a series of homes with the same post office address) will also have to be on guard. The United States and its European allies are still working out the exact terms of the resolution, with Washington apparently favouring a stronger version that would allow the bombing of Serbian airfields used by planes violating the air-exclusion zone.There have been no recorded Serbian combat flights in Bosnia for the last two months, and Western military experts suspect that the Serbian air force is in a state of considerable disarray. When the European Community unveiled its much-touted Growth Initiative yesterday, it proved to be a disappointment when compared with the more ambitious schemes put forward in the last year. Searches for board-level UK appointments often involve a trawl through Europe, North America and even the Far East. SCIENTISTS said yesterday that they may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer as they revealed details of research into one of the best anti-cancer drugs. ‘Any rapid movement of boats at this stage would be less than helpful.’Even farmers who are edging into tourism and welcome the boating circuit are worried.

Since Freud, the Western world has tended to assume that sexual satisfaction and close interpersonal relationships are essential to human happiness. This was partly true, for he was moved by the Londoners’ endurance, but he was equally fired by a subject which could blend the contradictory formal approaches he admired: the art of Masaccio and the ‘abstracted’ sculpture of archaic societies.Though well illustrated, London’s Burning is weakened by a flat, lecture-like style, with flurries of statistics, bland judgements (‘masterpiece’, ‘landmark’) and unpursued side-issues: the relation of art to propaganda, the myth of the ‘British character’. In Salonika the secret police have ostentatiously visited her elderly mother.The Greek Macedonian community refuses to go away, despite attempts to deny its existence. For despite the air of artless simplicity with which these diaries are presented, and despite the obvious immediacy of the individual entries, no-one can doubt that Mr Clark has given us a created book, a composed artefact, a work with a purpose. Sir Anthony Gill, chairman, brought the winning post slightly closer by admitting that profits on disposals will count towards this target. For small marine life, oil is not the instant killer portrayed, acting first as a narcotic.If the oil washes away on the next tide, the organisms will recover..