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... For 40 years, refusing or threatening to refuse to play cricket has been one of the diplomatic tactics at Britain's disposal for showing disapproval of anti-democratic governments. Eventually, after long argument and political fence-sitting in both...
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...McGough warrants a place between Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy as a serious contender. Heather Lawton Bridport, Dorset Mark Lawson speculates on how the next poet laureate might be chosen. A media contest is no doubt anathema to high-minded readers...
...a slit-throat murder in a shadowy room this week was positively Jacobean. The series, though, isn't all surface. This week's remarkable episode was the seventh show of the seventh season, which is neat because Spooks was given a boost of relevance and...
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...Lawson's criticism of the government's guidance on medicines for NHS patients - so that those "who buy drugs the health service refuses to fund will no longer have to opt out of public medicine" - suggests to me that he hasn't read the report by...
...for stealing a fetal heart monitor during a regular checkup at a Spencer hospital, police say. Spencer Police Chief Mark Lawson said the theft was discovered after Carissa Lord, 18, of Spencer, finished an appointment at Avera Health. Lord was arrested...
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...published on guardian.co.uk on Friday January 18 2008. It was last updated at 07:26 on January 18 2008. Arts journalist Mark Lawson has written to the BBC to clarify his scathing comments about the Today programme's arts coverage in Word magazine....
...the city’s general fund: “Which means we will not be able to use the general fund for anything else.” The city’s attorney, Mark Lawson of Maquoketa, observed, “To be honest with you, after 30 years (in business) I’ve never seen a town the size of...
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