Last week I spent a few days in the Swiss Alps. One beautifully sunny and clear afternoon I sat outside a mountain chalet amid the distant sound of cowbells and watched a Red Kite (the bird, that is) soar and circle above some meadows. After five minutes or so it...
The Idea in Brief A leader's judgment can make or break the organization. The best leaders make a high percentage of good calls (whom to hire, what strategy to implement, or how to handle a crisis) at...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Rudolph Technologies, Inc., today announced a favorable ruling in its ongoing patent infringement dispute with Camtek, Ltd., of Migdal Hamek, Israel. In an 11-page decision issued yesterday, Judge Michael Davis of the US Federal District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ruled in favor of Rudolph, denying Camtek's Motion for...
Cardiovascular surgeon whose innovations revolutionised the treatment of heart patients Michael DeBakey was the world's most innovative heart surgeon. A high-flier from his student days, he was one of the first surgeons to operate on the heart, performing 60,000 operations over 70 years with exceptional skill and...
BIG PHIL ARRIVES His best friend is Capello, he loves Ferguson, he makes us laugh. But will Scolari be Roman's special one? By Nick Townsend It is, by any judgement, a bravura performance. For close on two and a half hours, he manipulates...
A pilot who crashed his light aircraft, killing himself and a 13- year-old boy, was high on ecstasy during the fatal flight, it emerged yesterday. Robbie Gunter, 34, stalled the Cessna 150 seconds after taking off with a family friend, Jamie Clapp, on board. The aircraft fell 200ft to the...
PARIS -- The LVMH Group notes today's decision by the President of the Paris Court of Appeal, which confirms the charges against eBay of the Paris Commercial Court. Through an injunction, the Commercial Court had ordered eBay to cease selling perfumes and cosmetics bearing the Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy...
THE HAGUE AFP — A UN war crimes court acquitted former Macedonian interior minister Ljube Boskovski Thursday of the murder of ethnic Albanians in 2001, but convicted and jailed a former bodyguard for 12 years. A panel of judges on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Egyptian actor Omar Sharif will refuse to pay a 455,000-dollar civil judgement made against him stemming from a scuffle with a Beverly Hills valet, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. A lawyer who represented Sharif in the case told the Times that his...
Yes, you're right, it could be that the emotion of the moment distorts, and perhaps devalues, the glories of the past. True, also, that all attempts to make some absolute judgement on the superiority of one passage of sport over another are always going to be arbitrary and perhaps easily...
The poor, the obese and people with drug or alcohol problems are partly to blame for their own plight, David Cameron said yesterday. The Conservative leader used a speech in Glasgow to claim that Britain was in the grip of "a refusal to make judgements about what...
Yes, you're right, it could be that the emotion of the moment distorts, and perhaps devalues, the glories of the past. True, also, that all attempts to make some absolute judgement on the superiority of one passage of sport over another are always going to be arbitrary and perhaps easily...
Distinguished foreign correspondent who exemplified the best in BBC reporting for more than 60 years In the comparatively brief history of broadcasting, only a handful of news correspondents have become household names. Charles Wheeler, knighted in 2006, was incontestably one of them. In a career with the...
From the Archive A leading article on a boycott of Zimbabwe cricket LEADERSHIP IS easy when people are begging to be told what to do. So the Prime Minister's failure to demonstrate this important quality over the England cricket team's matches in Zimbabwe...
*Sleaze scandal in London hits Tories Questions from the past that cost Johnson's youth tsar his job Boris Johnson's deputy Ray Lewis resigned yesterday over sleaze allegations, plunging London's Mayor into his first serious crisis since taking over from Ken Livingstone. ...
By Barbara Hollingsworth THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A Topeka police officer critical of Shawnee County District Attorney Robert Hecht asserts the prosecutor doesn't want people arrested on Fridays and Saturdays because it would result in overtime for his office in filing charges. In...
By Barbara Hollingsworth THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A Topeka police officer critical of Shawnee County District Attorney Robert Hecht asserts the prosecutor doesn't want people arrested on Fridays and Saturdays because it would result in overtime for his office in filing charges. In...
Refco chief sentenced to 16 years for fraud *Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of the US commodities brokerage Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison yesterday for a nearly decade-long fraud that ultimat-ely pulled the firm into bank-ruptcy. Bennett, a British citizen, pleaded guilty in...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's top court on Tuesday rejected a petition to revoke the accreditation of a French television team, accused of staging footage of the alleged killing of a 12-year-old Gaza boy by Israeli soldiers at the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in 2000. "Such a measure...
Away from the high-rolling mainstream of Group One wins and priceless pedigrees, the rewards for perspicacity can, relatively, be as sweet. A week today, the value of one man's good judgement - backed up by a little luck - will be tested under the hammer in a Newmarket auction ring....
