The management of the HR function within a firm is not a core business activity, but nevertheless, it cuts across all processes within a company. Today, the prevailing trend is towards outsourcing non-core processes, and the HR function is no exception. In the past, separate elements of the HR function...
Politically incorrect humour was meant to have died in the 1980s. But sexist, racist jokes are alive and well on the Best of British Variety Tour. Jonathan Brown went along to hear the catchphrases that time forgot And there's more ... An almost balmy night at...
Film 2 Get Smart Peter Segal 111 MINS, 12A There's been a rash of prequels over the past few years, catering for those strange people who have always wanted to know where James Bond got his Aston Martin or how Batman manufactured his Bat-mask, but there's...
The latest billboard in the ongoing campaign against teenage drinking is a bib -- a dental bib. ParentsEmpowered and the Utah Dental Association aren't exactly drooling over their idea, but they're pretty excited about a public awareness campaign kicked off Wednesday using the unconventional medium and the...
Sir: I don't know who has told Paul Johnson that 'R.S.M's English has gone' (And another thing, 9 August) -- ''orrible little man' was, anyway, more a catchphrase of R.S.M. 'Tubby' Brittain's when he ventured into films after his Sandhurst and Mons days -- but as a former acting captain...
Texans wanting to break into a Hollywood acting career get a head start at Casting Fusion. AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Major Los Angeles agents, casting directors, and managers are converging on Austin -- the entertainment capital of Texas -- to meet with aspiring actors young...
'Shameless' and 'Little Britain' are going to America, 'Life on Mars' to Spain and 'The Office' to Russia. But British humour doesn't always travel well. Alice Jones reports The news that Russian television executives are on the look-out for a David Brentski of their own to...
GORDON BROWN'S political nightmare will continue to haunt him today when he welcomes to Downing Street the man who is arguably the world's most popular politician. Barack Obama arrived in London last night from Paris on his plane, nicknamed "Obama One", having conquered continental Europe and been...
At a Tarrytown tea company, "reduce, reuse and recycle" is ore than just a catchphrase. Silver Tips Tea Room has taken an environmental leadership position by offsetting its carbon emissions with Carbonfund.org, which takes donations from businesses to reduce their carbon footprints by spending them on renewable energy, reforestation...
INTERVIEW ANDREW MARR Andrew Marr has his own radio show, a BBC1 programme and is recording three landmark television series - yet he still finds time to hang out at Glastonbury. In spite of his success, he tells Ian Burrell of his...
BIG-spending comic Charlie Drake left just pounds 5,000 in his will. The 5 ft 1in star - catchphrase "Hallo my darlings" - became a multi-millionaire as one of Britain's top performers in the 1950s and 1960s. He had...
APPRENTICE boss Sir Alan Sugar cheated death yesterday after crash-landing his private plane. The multi-millionaire amazingly walked away unhurt after he overshot the runway at City of Manchester Airport. His four-seater Cirrus - which he once described as...
PARIS -- Be afraid, be very afraid: David Cronenberg's 1986 horror flick, "The Fly," has undergone a bizarre metamorphosis. It's now an opera. The new incarnation, with tenor Placido Domingo conducting a score by Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore ("The Lord of the Rings"),...
ON ADS I didn't really cut it on 'Grumpy Old Men'. I gibbered away for hours in a darkened room and then they used about 30 seconds of heavy sarcasm. The pillar of 'GOM' is Arthur Smith, with his bloodhound face and his...
1 JOHN MCENROE v BJORN BORG Time span 1978-81; 14 matches Head to head McEnroe 7 Borg 7 Grand Slam finals Four; McEnroe won three Wimbledon Two finals, 1980, 1981; one each Relatively speaking, this pair didn't play too many...
Last year's Tour de France ended with a bizarre twist when overall leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark was pulled from the race by his own team with just four stages remaining. Alberto Contador, a Spaniard riding for the U.S.-based Discovery team, took the win. Rasmussen was...
Inside the industry Promotional blurbs on book covers are suspect. But Bob Costas, blurbing for ESPN anchor Linda Cohn's new memoir Cohn-Head, is right on: "I now know things about Linda Cohn I couldn't have even suspected." And how. In a refreshing departure from...
HOLLYWOOD -- Call it trippy. Just don't call it trip-hop. Third album Third, Portishead's return after an 11-year hiatus, not only heralds a daring reinvention, it hammers the final nail into the coffin of a genre the U.K. trio popularized but never embraced. Third...
Aish's mission is to help young Jews find a meaningful commitment to their religion and culture. It also aims to bolster a population that is in decline. Since neither of these goals might sound like an awful lot of fun to the average teenager, Aish does...
THE NATION'S FAVOURITE He was bought last week for Pounds 1m. But did you know his birthday tribute to Nelson Mandela is the most popular? Or that he always has a hand in the key moments in our national life? By Cole...
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