She is half a man.” Or in German: “Sie ist ein halber Mann.”Mauresmo’s coach, Christophe Fournerie, told Channel Seven television. “She has the feeling that she played really well and she did well, so she’s surprised that the number one and the number two in the world could talk about her like that. She is [...]

“Consultancy work has started to land in our laps, too,” says Holmes. “Strangely enough, the paper company Arjo Wiggins Fine Papers asked us to develop some paper textures.”While Holmes works with knitted fabrics using an industrial knitting machine, Swindell specialises in woven textiles made on a loom. Their experience there – “we learnt how not [...]

And the income from PEPs will no longer be as tax-efficient, due to the reduction in tax credits on dividends. The cost of the PEP may outweigh the advantages here.Protection: Further, Edmund and Judith see protection as a low priority. Both of their employers provide good levels of sickness benefit, so there is very little [...]

The truth of the matter is that it is being financed by ever higher borrowing, much of it from the rest of the world.For how much longer can this merry-go-round be sustained? Not much longer, seems to be the general view here, although naturally you don’t hear it from American policy makers. Were it not [...]

Hair care treatments will be effective and oxidising and bleaching processes will work well… it doesn’t say anything about washing, but I think I’ll risk it.Rhiannon BattenThe feng shui website is at www.online-fengshui ; for Astropath stockists, call 0171-229 9394; copies of `The Moon And Your Hair’ can be ordered from www.gretakahn or by [...]

I don’t think there is a limit to the number of Jags I want to own, just got to be careful. I don’t want to spend it all on cars.”One reason Gambill can afford the indulgence is that he still lives with his parents on a 10-acre spread in Colbert, where he stores the cars. [...]

A thumbed nose to those who questioned City’s right to continued Premiership status after an ominously lacklustre start to the year might have been more apposite.It has been a perplexing start to 1999 for the normally garrulous Ulsterman, whose post-match analyses have become as subdued, and acquired almost the same gravitas, as confessionals. When that [...]

George Graham, while he continues to specialise in the Cup sprint, is producing quite a kick into the final League bend. It was he – aware that his players are jockeying for a place in next weekend’s Wembley line-up – who precipitated the thrust of victory with a triple substitution 11 minutes from time.
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“They are under great pressure to maintain their attractiveness and suffer more when it diminishes,” she says. “People who have been very attractive all their lives get a great shock when things level out in their 50s and 60s.” And, she says, there are other disadvantages – “though ones that most of us would be [...]

Not for them all that artificial baiting which Don King loves to orchestrate “Nice to meet you, Don,” Marciano said, offering his hand. Hollywood, apparently, can’t get enough of him just now, which only goes to show that serious substance abuse really does impair your judgement.The segments that were Lee-free, on the other hand, were [...]