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  • Turner's Earners - Top tips for Thursday's British meetings

    Sam Turner Robin Goodfellow, Brian Giles Gimcrack and the nation's top tipping team bring you their best bets for Wednesday's British racing.
    2008-06-04 22:34:19

  • Fewer state school students at top universities despite costly campaigns

    Top universities have failed to attract more students from state schools and working-class backgrounds, despite spending millions on outreach schemes.
    2008-06-04 22:24:47

  • Books of The Times: Bearing Witness to the Fallen and the Grieving

    Jim Sheeler’s book about fallen military personnel takes one of the great underreported stories of the Iraq war and brings it to light with empathy and quiet decency.
    2008-06-04 22:20:09

  • Education Diary: Resignations at The Times educational supplements

    Musical chairs at The Times educational supplements, now run by a private equity company. The editor of The Times Educational Supplement, Karen Dempsey, formerly of Personnel Today and The Grocer, has resigned "for personal reasons". She had only been in the post five months; now she is replaced by Gerard Kelly, formerly editor of the successfully relaunched Times Higher Education. His deputy is Alan Thompson, who has also arrived from the THE. So, we now have at the top of the TES two people who are expert in higher education. What does it all mean
    2008-06-04 22:17:11

  • Last Night's TV: The Apprentice, BBC1Location, Location, Location, Channel 4

    The Apprentice finally reached the boring interview episode this week, or rather the episode that you always think will be boring but then turns out to be more interesting than you expected because of the aggression of Sir Alan's crack team of rottweillers, all of whom have been trained to take a curriculum vitae between their teeth and shake it ferociously until the loose bits fly off. And when they get bored with that, they start using the candidates as a chew-toy, an experience that makes even the toughest of them adopt that blinking, I'm-not-going-to-give-you-the-satisfaction-of-seeing-me-cry look that Lucinda seems to have permanently fixed on her face. "If it is interviews today then, yeah, I'm nervous," said Lee "Come On!!" McQueen. "Because obviously you're going to go and get an arse-chewing from top people within Sir Alan's businesses." And, sure enough, before long one of Sir Alan's satraps – the beady-eyed one who runs the computer firm Viglen – had fixed his teeth into Lee's rump over a bit of embroidery with his university record. He'd even phoned up the institution in question and arranged for them to fax over proof that Lee had exaggerated.
    2008-06-04 22:15:11

  • Ince emerges as front-runner for Ewood Park post

    A manager in the mould of the outgoing Mark Hughes – Paul Ince – has emerged as the early lead contender for the Blackburn Rovers job as the club begin their unenviable attempt to maintain top 10 status without the Welshman.
    2008-06-04 22:11:11

  • Costa, Ford and Burch are fashion's big winners

    Francisco Costa, Tom Ford and Tory Burch were the big winners at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designer of America awards, the industry's top honor. Costa, designer for Calvin Klein, was beckoned to the podium by...
    2008-06-04 22:06:19

  • NYT: Obama looks to tap Clinton fundraisers

    As Sen. Barack Obama edges closer to the Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign is gearing up to recruit many of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top fundraisers.
    2008-06-04 22:04:25

  • US, Pakistan military chiefs meet in Islamaba ...

    ISLAMABAD AFP - US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen held counter-terrorism talks with Pakistani army top brass Wednesday, two days after a suicide bomb killed six people in the capital, officials ...
    2008-06-04 22:00:00

  • U.S., Pak military chiefs meet in Islamabad: ...

    U.S. military chief Admiral Mike Mullen held a second day of counter-terrorism talks with Pakistani army top brass Wednesday.
    2008-06-04 22:02:33
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