However defined Mr Smith’s beliefs and his manner of pursuing them are rooted in his past

However defined, Mr Smith’s beliefs and his manner of pursuing them are rooted in his past; as he tells it, he got his socialism, simply enough, from his father.Archibald Leitch Smith was the son of a herring fisherman in the village of Tarbert on the shore of Loch Fyne in Argyll, in west Scotland. His task is to convince the voters that the Democrats can make US society fairer and more dynamic without a return to high spending and high taxation. THE Test and County Cricket Board’s treasurer must be profoundly thankful that the final three Texaco Trophy matches were all sold out before England picked their 13-man squad. Add freshly grated pepper and serve immediately.Next week’s theme is cooking with pumpkins. There was nothing green about it at all, in fact.As long as they do not get carried away, because if this performance were replicated against Australia next month the consequences would be unpleasant. Only the Kuwaitis are full-bloodedly behind the US military effort.Dissident elements within Egypt and Saudi Arabia, however small, are opposed to the West’s continued threat of the use of military force against Iraq.

But both ladies are formidable after their fashion; both are fierce moral protagonists whose tragedy is that they fall short of their own standards; and both are currently at large in Britain. They have rented out their own flat for pounds 800 a month, which covers all their costs.Statistics published this month by the agency showed that a quarter of those renting are in the same position as Annabel: letting out their own home and renting another. So whatever happened to the intimate comedy of manners? The Coliseum swallowed it whole, it would seem. They really feel they’re getting their money’s worth.’A potential client will first have a telephone interview, during which they try to establish, says Mary, ‘whether they’re our kind of person’. That round is about as good as I can do.’ Resuming at level par he had birdies at the second and third with putts from 10 and five feet and enjoyed an outrageous stroke of fortune at the par five ninth. A photograph taken in 1992 shows her looking almost as haggard as the starving African boy posing with her. Until recently, on the Punta della Dogana, stood a lone lamp standard bearing the singular inscription:Fonderia di Ferro in Venezia di Theodor e Hasselquist.The lamp and its makers inspired a delightful poem by the late John Sparrow.

If Antonia de Sancha is to be believed, the events of last Thursday, when Mr Mellor went, had the mark of natural justice. The photograph was put on the front page of the Daily Express by its fashion editor, Deidre McSharry, as the Face of ‘66 and a super-model was born. Though Mackay probably knows more about Burns than any living scholar, his Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns (Mainstream pounds 20) is a hugely tedious assemblage of painfully researched facts gleaned from Kirk Session books, Masonic lodge minutes, Commissary records and parish registers. He was deservedly named as man of the series.
Kumble is an unlikely looking fellow.

Judges refuse to comment on individual cases, but both Judge Lowry and Judge Eric Crowther at Middlesex passed concurrent sentences which would have run alongside the 1984 conviction and allowed him to be freed when that term was served.The Act lays down a ‘latest date of release’ (LDR) – which sets the longest time a prisoner can serve with no remission or parole – and an ‘earliest date of release’ (EDR), which sets the earliest time that a prisoner can be eligible for parole and remission. ‘You knew what would be allowed, so you ended up not applying for any more.’In the mid-Eighties, McIndoe decided to borrow from the management textbooks in an attempt to bolster falling morale. Can we do a better job – or even as good a job – of handling it?

Advances in knowledge about human genes are usually presented as positive, offering the hope of ridding the world of a lethal disease or a disabling condition, such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s Chorea. For the Israeli public, this week’s fighting has proved the need for more security on the state’s borders, not less..