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Sport in short: Speed Skating00:02
Public Services Management: Why the city manager won't write about sex: Ted Gaebler's driving passion is reinventing government from the ground up. Liza Donaldson reports00:02
Sport in short: Ice Hockey00:02
Brave faces and bargains amid the ruins00:02
Football: Finishing flourish by Webb00:02
Sun spot homeowners turn heat on protector: British clients claim a crusader for their rights has let them down00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Accord balances on a two-edged sword: Subsidiarity00:02
Fishing Lines: Reeling in a rottweiler00:02
Patients in revolt over health bills: Strict charges by private hospitals are costing insurance companies and their clients dear. Sue Fieldman reports00:02
The Sunday Preview: Dance00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Different drumbeat echoes in Scots' palace of power: Neal Ascherson reports that Europe's visit has revived the clamour for Home Rule00:02
Letter: 'Humanitarian' aid leaves Bosnia without hope00:02
The Sunday Preview: Rock00:02
Sport in short: Golf00:02
Racing: Springaleak can burst into Ascot limelight00:02
Vote, vote, vote for Mr Oliver00:02
Your Money: Singles seek pension shift00:02
Notebook: Love that was born in a coffee spittoon: Add soap to Gold Blend, sweeten with romance and stir for ten teasing episodes. Then sit back and watch your sales go up by 40 per cent00:02
Football: Wilkinson receives welcome cheer00:02
Cricket: Hooper inspires victory00:02
Bridge00:02
Then & now: Beyond belief00:02
Lonrho: A lone stranger in Tiny's world: How mystery man Dieter Bock struck a deal for the shareholding00:02
DANCE / Missed by a whisker00:02
Sport in short: Swimming00:02
Fury at delay in US rescue00:02
Deaths00:02
Buyouts: Staking the future on name value: Jason Nisse finds a management that rates the firm's status higher than personal riches00:02
Trusts try balancing act with dividends00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / If it's Monday, it must be minimalism00:02
Letter: 'Humanitarian' aid leaves Bosnia without hope00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dispatches from a war zone: The Journey - by Ida Fink, Hamish Hamilton pounds 14.99: Children and fools by Erich Fried, Serpent's Tail pounds 6.9900:02
Football: Latics show a back flaw00:02
Sport in short: Basketball00:02
CBI gets some fax appeal00:02
Letter00:02
God's gift to the English people?: Andrew Brown argues that there is no good case against disestablishment of the Church00:02
Food & Drink: Prue Leith's Christmas: Plan, plan and be merry: If you have a Christmas dinner to cook, says Prue Leith, don't panic - organise. Michael Bateman introduces recipes and a preparation timetable from her new book00:02
Letter: Give Friedman's prize to Keynes00:02
Major gets his way, but at a price00:02
Spain shakes as Kuwaiti powerhouse stumbles: A decision to call in the receivers could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs00:02
Gardening: Power flowers: A hand-picked guide to hardy perennials: 3: Daisy00:02
Leagues poised to score at polls00:02
Girls and father cleared of murder00:02
Surge in bonuses at top of UK firms00:02
Letter: The gospel truth00:02
Arts: Show people 56: Joanna Lumley00:02
Envoys walk out00:02
Letter00:02
Palestinians meet Bush00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Vagabond painter, singing of Ireland's open roads: Jack B Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, Deutsch, 3 vols, pounds 395 until 31 December, then pounds 45000:02
Eurobonds to fit ethics: Andrew Bibby examines a fund aimed at investors wishing to help the Third World00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Weak flesh dilutes teh economic plan: Growth00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Skeletons in the family cupboard: Origins reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, Little Brown pounds 18.9900:02
Disk shows fast track to management education: Roger Trapp looks at a new database that guides users through the morass of information00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Post-prandial Ozfest: The dreaming swimmer by Clive James, Cape pounds 14.9900:02
Health: Quick-fix therapy for people in a hurry: Conventional psychotherapy can take years to work, but a new system claims to help patients function again in only 10 to 15 sessions. Annabel Ferriman investigates00:02
Britain angry as US steals arms market00:02
Tarmac faces pounds 120m write-off00:02
With-profits bonus fears: Safety-first policies are set for a sharp drop in value, writes Vivien Goldsmith00:02
Football: Forest fail to dispel rumours of demise00:02
Saying of the week00:02
Mark Thatcher link in complaint to DTI00:02
Football: Walker proves the exception: Jasper Rees on why myths and maths bar ex-goalkeepers from management00:02
A little word from your financial adviser00:02
Letter00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Flashy segments of themselves: William Scammell looks at three recent collections00:02
Tennis: Chang's spirit decisive00:02
Liberation philosophy can still be oppressive: Roger Trapp has yet to be convinced by the latest book on management flair from the guru Tom Peters00:02
Anne marries on a sombre Highland day00:02
Travel: Buy, fly ..but beware: Nicole Bridel on flight discounts that come with high-street goods00:02
Pilkington predators need only wait00:02
Letter: Let luck determine who sits in the Lords00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Frozen dadpoles and other Glasgow jinks: Swing hammer swing] by Jeff Torrington, Secker pounds 7.9900:02
Records for Christmas: Always touched by your presents dear: From Liszt to Arrested Development, from B B King to Britten, 'IoS' critics choose their top five CDs of the year00:02
City air pollution 'will get worse'00:02
Sport in short: Cricket00:02
Sport in short: Snooker00:02
Letter: A stable exchange rate is best00:02
Bunhill: Prime time00:02
TELEVISION / Deep sadness here in, er, the studio00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best exhibitions00:02
Food & Drink: Cookbooks to savour: Michael Bateman samples the Christmas publishing menu, from little stocking-fillers to sumptuous coffee-table tomes00:02
Truckers face hijack spate00:02
BBC upsets Heseltine00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best films00:02
Of muscles and men: As male bodies sell anything from scent to ice-cream, William Leith notes the effect on men of the 'Chippendale syndrome'00:02
Economics: Currencies in search of an anchor00:02
The Sunday Preview: Jazz00:02
Rugby Union: Cardiff go top as Walker celebrates with try spree00:02
Banks carpeted for overcharges00:02
Letter00:02
'Wise men' split on rate cuts: Chancellor's team of seven independent advisers is divided over whether to act now or wait and see00:02
Letter: Police, thieves and fast cars00:02
Racing: Lonesome Glory's historic first00:02
In the consumer's cathedral: As the Christmas shopping rush begins, an English centre-of-plenty and bombed Coleraine offer illuminating contrasts00:02
Rugby Union: Hooker Tordo to lead French00:02
Football: Ipswich are too strong00:02
Heritage body wants a refund00:02
Bunhill: Off sure00:02
Holiday offer00:02
Yeltsin makes a drama out of a crisis again: Russia's President thrives on narrow escapes, but times are changing, says Andrew Higgins00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Manet's girl who did it her way: Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet by Otto Friedrich, Aurum pounds 19.9500:02
Arts: Comic genius? Well, maybe: Richard Attenborough's film about Chaplin opens this week, at last. It may take his greatness for granted. So we asked a few people: is he funny?00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
Sport in short: Motor Racing00:02
Long live the Queen - or it's Diana00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Twelve support force in Bosnia no-fly zone: Foreign Policy00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Rugby League: Williams in dual purpose: Dave Hadfield on a former union man selected to play rugby league for Wales00:02
Football: Graham objects to referee00:02
Football: Whittingham makes it 1800:02
New economies attract unit trust00:02
Russian first00:02
Property: Religion and the slump in house-buying: Agents of all sorts have been preaching the doctrine of home-ownership to Kim Perkins00:02
Personal legal fees cover at risk00:02
Sport in short: Darts00:02
Zulu questioned00:02
City: Has Rowland got a hidden agenda?00:02
The lone sloanes: When separation looms, some Sloane Rangers lose more than others, says Geraldine Bedell00:02
Common complaints: Catarrh00:02
A strange life: Profile of Prince Philip00:02
The Sunday Preview: Theatre00:02
No charges brought00:02
Pay back Maxwell money, Labour peer is told (CORRECTED)00:02
Football: QPR throw it all away00:02
Bunhill: Hislop affront00:02
Leading Article: Son, don't believe in fairy-tales00:02
Letter: No computer, no list of enemies and no 'non-genital man'00:02
Sport in short: Skating00:02
Index00:02
New pitch00:02
Opinions: Do you still write letters?00:02
Rugby Union: South Africa needs a show of unity00:02
Clinton 'names first black' for his cabinet00:02
Football: Hughes strikes to keep Norwich in check00:02
Motoring: Keeping up with the Joneses: John Fordham drives the Toyota Carina E, the car that's in front - or is it?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Battlefield of the body: The patient by George macBeth, Hutchinson pounds 7.9900:02
Books: Paddling in the sexpit: Should Samuel Beckett's 'lost manuscript', written when he was just 26, have been left where its author consigned it 60 years ago?00:02
Sport in short: American Football00:02
Sport in short: Squash00:02
Art Market: Art for Christmas00:02
Travel: Scenes from the ascent to heaven: Ian Holmes leaves this modern life and passes into a closed world of prayer with the monks of Mount Athos00:02
Sport in short: Hockey00:02
Overheard00:02
Football: on the move00:02
GM faces possible recall of 5m trucks00:02
Letter: No computer, no list of enemies and no 'non-genital man'00:02
How we met 64.: Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison00:02
Moderation dies as temples burn00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Quantum leaps: The rediscovery of the mind by John Searle, MIT Press pounds 9.9500:02
Football: Johnson stakes England claim as Midlands contain North00:02
The Sunday Preview: Registering the shock of the Nouvel00:02
Goodbye Stalin, hello Mammon: Once he was Red Mick, now capitalism calls. Nick Cohen spoke to him00:02
Let's talk about a British republic00:02
Global warming blamed for big New York storm00:02
Arts: Let there be half-light: Samuel Palmer was always old-fashioned. It doesn't mean he wasn't good00:02
Sport in short: Olympic Games00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew makes the most of possession: Richard Williams sees England's two leading stand-offs doing battle00:02
Serbia must be beaten back: Anthony Farrar-Hockley argues that only armed force can save Bosnia-Herzegovina00:02
The Sunday Preview: Opera & Concerts00:02
Bankers to meet Lamont00:02
Books: Science: All sorts of reasons for being unreasonable: Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland, Constable pounds 12.9500:02
Chess00:02
Japan hopeful00:02
ROCK / Shaky rattles and rock's rollin' again00:02
Death won't wait for the Marines: Richard Dowden sees the ordeal of Baidoa as it faces five more nights of madness till the Americans come00:02
Just a pipe-dream team?00:02
Boxing: Piper has to dance to Benn's tune00:02
Inside Story: What's wrong with them?: Whatever the opinion polls may suggest, many people still would not vote for Labour's frontbench and its policies00:02
India feeds the roots of conflict: Michael Fathers finds the Muslims of Bombay under siege as the tide of Hindu nationalism rises00:02
Cries & whispers00:02
Letter00:02
Letter00:02
Shares: Charts herald the dawn of a new bull run00:02
The not quite so magnificent seven: The Treasury plans to set up a panel of outside advisers. Robert Chote looks at their record and prospects00:02
Cut out the 'ologies' and 'isms', social workers told00:02
The Sunday Preview: Art00:02
Bunhill: Russia 'phones00:02
Boeing warning00:02
The Sunday Preview: Cinema00:02
Football: Quinn grasps initiative00:02
Books in Brief00:02
Sport in short: Sailing00:02
The agreeable world of Wallace Arnold: Tittle-tattle by appointment00:02
Bunhill: Motor root00:02
Letter: Annie could give Sinead a few career tips00:02
Anniversaries00:02
My biggest mistake00:02
Football: Littlejohn lifts Blades00:02
RADIO / Portrait of a break-up00:02
Motoring: In-car gifts: sorting the neat from the naff00:02
Sport in short: Skiing00:02
Sport in short: Tennis00:02
Staff idle00:02
Art Market: Mysterious gifts from the East: Who is the man who has collected Islam's finest treasures and offered them to Britain as a pounds 1bn bequest? Geraldine Norman finds out00:02
THEATRE / On a roundabout that swings00:02
Florence pleads for another renaissance: Patricia Clough reports from a city whose historic treasures are being eroded by time, pollution and the neglect of a state deaf to conservationists' pleas00:02
Damn the children when the Devil must be found00:02
Profile: Mr Right for Wall Street: Lloyd Bentsen: The next US Treasury Secretary is a wily old pro who doesn't make many mistakes, Patrick Cockburn reports00:02
Threat to Sunday shopping: Councils are poised for a pre-Christmas strike on stores that defy law. Patrick Hosking reports00:02
Career Aid: Home alone: the magazine: A new journal puts telecommuters in the picture, Roger Trapp reports00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Europe bickers back into business: Probably the best treaty in the world: Denmark00:02
Profile: Faith versus reason: Lord Rama: He personifies good, so why are his followers inspired to violence? Brian Cathcart examines the myth00:02
Football: Rovers' return marks Dalglish's recovery00:02
Football: Barnet delight at Fry's return: Owen Slot sees a popular manager back on his patch00:02
Q & A: More speed, more effort . . . . . in running and penalties00:02
Just no escape from New York: Raymond Whitaker on storms that brought disaster and a state of emergency to the north-east seaboard00:02
Tennis:,When Dan was trying his bons mots for size: Richard Evans, a fellow-commentator, on the voice of Wimbledon00:02
Letter: Let luck determine who sits in the Lords00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hard times, Washington square: Henry James - by Fred Kaplan - John Curtis/Hodder pounds 2500:02
City: Airbus fall-out00:02
Bunhill: United they stand (CORRECTED)00:02
Jobs boost00:02
Sport in short: Rugby League00:02
Soccer agent accused in writ (CORRECTED)00:02
'I'd much prefer a thriller ..' : It's book-buying time again. But what are the sports books that the country's sportsmen and women read? Guy Hodgson finds out00:02
Fashion: Textural feeling00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best plays00:02
Lonrho: Life upstairs, in the secret empire that time forgot00:02
Letter: Let luck determine who sits in the Lords00:02
A queen of quality TV: Dianne Nelmes, a power behind Granada's throne, says high standards must go hand in hand with high ratings. Martin Wroe reports00:02
The Broader Picture: The loss of a local history00:02
Contemporary poets 22: Douglas Dunn00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Manufacturers of the ideal woman: The female nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality by Lynda Nead, Routledge pounds 35/ pounds 10.9900:02
Bunhill: Bank bans German