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News in Brief: 'Waiters' found desserted00:02
DANCE / Introducing Sissi: crazy name, crazy Empress: Rudra Bejart Lausanne - Sadler's Wells00:02
To Hell and back (by way of the office): Your journey to work may be causing you more stress than the job itself, says Caroline McGhie00:02
Storm over sheltered flats: Pensioners are complaining about high service charges. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
Leading Article: Rule by quango00:02
Winner's police memorial has officers cringing (CORRECTED)00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Humbug in the tuckshop: Delusions of grandeur: A Headmaster's Life 1966-86 - John Rae: HarperCollins, pounds 16.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Taking liberties with the J-word: The spirit of the age: An Account of Our Times - David Selbourne: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 2000:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Football: A tall order even for the complete footballer: Five former internationals talk to Jasper Rees about the elusive art of goalscoring00:02
Briefly: Drinking up00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Football: Take two for Walsh00:02
'Brainy Doris Day' to run Sotheby's00:02
Briefly: US to ease up un Saddam00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Virgin set for another transatlantic route00:02
My Biggest Mistake: David James00:02
Profile: Leader fights on at Lucas: Sir Anthony Gill has endured a tough year, but his engineering flair and decentralising instinct may yet prevail. David Bowen and Terence Wilkinson report00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: A Case of Curiosities - Allen Kurzweil: Penguin, pounds 5.9900:02
Letter: Don't you love being in control?00:02
Drugs test Clinton's mettle00:02
VIDEO / La Belle Noiseuse (15; Artificial Eye)00:02
City File: LWT slipping00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
MOTORING / Withnail, the cat from Coventry and I: Me & My Motor: Richard E Grant made his screen name in a Mark 2 Jag; now he has his own XJS. Matthew Gwyther goes for a gentle spin00:02
Racing: Zeta's Lad can land lottery: Paul Hayward makes his National selections00:02
News in Brief: Bookshop attacked00:02
Bunhill: Pie in the sky flies into trouble00:02
THE BROADER PICTURE / A short life in the fast lane00:02
Motor Racing: Senna geared for the fight00:02
Rugby Union: Davies applies the kick-start00:02
Letter: Naga people are Christian00:02
ROCK / Still in the vanguard: Suede00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
THEATRE / Barker's up for assault again: The Europeans - Greenwich; Blood Wedding - Lyric Hammersmith; Don't Fool With Love - Queen's Hall Arts Centre00:02
VIDEO / 1492: Conquest of Paradise (15; Guild)00:02
Athletics: Skah searching for a scrap: Mike Rowbottom reports from Spain on today's world cross-country championships00:02
You can't pick him, surely?: Britain's sports selectors are having a more than usually rough ride. Guy Hodgson on the choosing game00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Accidental tourist: Natural opium: Travelling Tales - Diane Johnson: Chatto, pounds 10.9900:02
Hotels still have room: Shares in the sector may see early gains from any recovery, writes Derek Pain00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Glaxo jets to top of high-flyers' league00:02
Venture firms call for wider CGT relief00:02
Letter: BBC's reputation for truth deserves a better guardian00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Russia on the Brink: The man who would be king of a better kind of Utopia: Imre Karacs in Moscow profiles Alexander Rutskoi, waverer on the threshold of power00:02
Rowing: Light blues' clear water revival: Cambridge at last tasted victory in the University Boat Race yesterday. Richard Williams reports00:02
VIDEO / A League of Their Own (PG; 20/20)00:02
BOOKS / The arc of affection: The correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand, two lions of French literature, has been called 'perhaps the finest of all time'00:02
Letter: Howling wolves00:02
INTERVIEW / Prepare to meet thy future: Big books about the 21st century are supposed to make your flesh creep. But Paul Kennedy argues that the end of the world is not, quite, nigh00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The feuding fiefdom of the left: Changing Faces: A History of The Guardian, 1956-88 - Geoffrey Taylor: 4th Estate, pounds 2000:02
Football: Deane joins injury list00:02
'Le grand cock-up' that led to British Rail's missing link: Christian Wolmar reports on the trail of blunders, confusion and changes of mind that have blighted plans for a high-speed rail route to the Channel Tunnel00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Revived: The big mac of the Fifties: Hester Matthewman and Gabrielle Morris on the return of the plucky Pakamac00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
All G-one: the sofas of the Sixties: Jonathan Glancey remembers G-Plan and the art of colour supplement living00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Controversy grows as Black turns on critics00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
News in Brief: Gas heater deaths00:02
Business and City in Brief: Chinese heat00:02
Value added on the eleventh floor: Valerie Strachan's role as head of Customs & Excise calls for delicate management. Sarah Hegarty talked to her00:02
Slump in morale alarms Barclays00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Art de pays that's a shade ordinaire: Provincial France has invaded the National Gallery. With mixed results00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Right to the funny-bone The quick and the dead: 85 Poems - Gavin Ewart: Hutchinson, pounds 7.9900:02
FOOD & DRINK / The high priest of pasta: For chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, pasta is more than a food. It is a way of life, the cornerstone of Latin civilisation. Michael Bateman unravels his philosophy00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings: Asta's Book - Barbara Vine: Viking, pounds 15.9900:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Spring Ram leads its flock astray: The City showed blind faith in an incredible success story. Then it all fell apart. Robert Cole reports00:02
Football: Hoddle digs in for point00:02
Letter: A woman's right to boost employment00:02
Bunhill: A prince among men not his own00:02
City File: Pearson gloom00:02
Football Round-Up: Sinclair strike sinks Stoke00:02
Why on earth was I there?00:02
FASHION / The trying on game00:02
THEATRE / The way he tells them: Tom Stoppard's first stage play for five years opens next week. The story so far is one of unusual success, unmatched wit and underrated wisdom. But what of the uncertainty that really makes him tick?00:02
Hollywood bosses bow to the power of the rising yen: Phil Reeves in Los Angeles on how a film's villain ceased to be Japanese00:02
Energy: Power firms feel wind of change: Britain is finally taking advantage of an inexhaustible natural resource. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Your Money: Hung up on sale of BT00:02
Right time to go it alone00:02
Why I'm relieved I was a spoilsport mother00:02
BOOKREVIEW / Mad Major steals the scene: Utopia and other places - Richard Eyre: Bloomsbury, pounds 16.9900:02
VIDEO / 8 1/2 (15; Connoisseur)00:02
Serbs bar relief to siege town00:02
Safe under thatch: A thatched roof need not load your premium, writes Mary Wilson00:02
Hi-Tec chairman denies rumours as directors quit: Sports shoemaker expects an upturn after pounds 3m losses, writes Nick Gilbert00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
TELEVISION / Womanly airs and disgraces00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ape expectations: The Imaginary Monkey - Sean French: Granta Books, pounds 12.9900:02
Letter: For pity's sake00:02
City File: Adding Coventry aerospace operation00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall: Fontana, pounds 9.9900:02
Letter: A woman's right to boost employment00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A home on the rolling deep: Ocean Steamers - John Adams: New Cavendish, pounds 3500:02
Scab] Scab] the pickets scream: The era of bitter disputes is back. Outside the high metal fence at Timex's00:02
City File: Verge of making a large acquisition00:02
City: Rail link still waiting for tunnel vision00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes exploits the gap00:02
Sport in Short: Sumo00:02
Letter: Victors in war pay a high price00:02
Holiday hitches with annual cover00:02
Last rites for the worst-verse prizes00:02
Rugby League: Wigan make it six on the trot00:02
Payout to Jean Walker: George Walker's wife receives pounds 340,000 compensation after resigning as director00:02
Bunhill: What happened to Victor Lownes?00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: BBC's reputation for truth deserves a better guardian00:02
News in Brief: Crash baby critical00:02
Lamont looks to trim spending00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: The Sayings of W B Yeats, ed Joseph Spence: Duckworth, pounds 4.9500:02
News in Brief: Boy, 9, assaulted00:02
RECORDS / Blues: Bukka White - Baton Rouge Mosby Street (Blues Beacon, CD only)00:02
Russia on the Brink: Ghostly patriot who haunts Boris Yeltsin: Andrew Higgins in Moscow reports on signs that history could repeat itself00:02
City File: Wedgwood to shake off the blues00:02
Then & Now: Imperial Mint00:02
Golf: Pack closes in on Price00:02
Action on grants ring00:02
Cricket: West Indies lose spark00:02
Everything you wanted to know about schmucks: Peter Pringle in New York watches Woody Allen act out his most tragic role00:02
Bunhill: Opening address00:02
TRAVEL / Join the chateauxing classes: Aristos in western France have begun doing B & B. Peter Guttridge spends some posh nights en famille00:02
Inventor's 'clean air' exhaust rejected00:02
RECORDS / The IoS Playlist: The five best records of the moment00:02
Heseltine faces renewed revolt over pit closures00:02
Leading Article: The patriot shame00:02
Mitterrand in the firing line00:02
World health chief faces fraud inquiry: Correction00:02
Briefly: Algeria breaks links with Iran00:02
TRAVEL / America on 25 cents a day: Memorable Journeys: Malcolm Bradbury: From London to New York and Toronto00:02
Business and City in Brief: Electric car00:02
Letter: Exoticism is the rich person's racism00:02
Sport in Short: Badminton00:02
Cricket: Crowe sets Kiwis flying00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew profits as Northampton lose their way00:02
Gunmen net fortune in tax discs from train00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Fishing for fraternity in a sea of sadism00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A little more than kin: The Astors - Derek Wilson: Weidenfeld, pounds 2000:02
Opinions: Should condoms be given out in schools?00:02
King Commute of the Isle of Wight00:02
TRAVEL / Join the St Petersburg suburbanites: Tony Perrottet rents a flat from a Russian doctor00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Inside this building the officials are deciding what's best for Africa: Kenya has refused the World Bank's economic medicine. Richard Dowden explains why the Third World thinks the prescription is poisonous00:02
CHILDREN / A parent, in sickness and in health: Is understanding your child's illness the best way to protect it? Carmel Fitzsimons on challenging medical opinion00:02
City: The Black stuff00:02
FILM / Under a sun that never sets: Indochine (12); Wittgenstein (12); Distinguished Gentleman (15); Forever Young (PG)00:02
Leading archaeologist says Old Testament stories are fiction00:02
ART / Gloomy adventures of a stick-in-the-mud: Correction00:02
City File: Row coming to a head00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Business and City in Brief: Delayed float00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Bunhill: Bloomer00:02
News in Brief: Bonds00:02
Ruffled Yeltsin tries to win time00:02
Destinies collide on the Nile: Robert Fisk takes a train journey to the Valley of the Kings where the signposts of Islamic resurgence mark the end of Egypt's tourist trail00:02
News in Brief: Record art sale00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Menace on main street: The strange Kees to success: William Scammell on some new and revisited reputations00:02
Fishing Lines: Hooked for life00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Never too hot to handle: Christopher West takes a tour around the wilder shores of armchair travel00:02
Economics: England stuck at the back of the class00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Making the most of manufacturing00:02
Executives duck dollars 1bn of new tax: Clinton supporters join scramble to cash in share options before D-Day00:02
HEALTH / Common Procedure: Biopsy00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Rugby Union Round-up: Seventh fifty takes Llanelli back to the top00:02
Bupa incentives for low claimers00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Love in the Time of Victoria - Francoise Barret-Ducrocq, trs John Howe: Penguin, pounds 6.9900:02
Briefly: Seitz confirmed00:02
VIDEO / Zero de Conduite (PG; Artificial Eye)00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Media-wallah who knows too much00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Grace and PR favours00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: 27 copies short00:02
Cambridge boat enjoys the creatine effect00:02
Cornish oyster dredgers face their final catch00:02
Watchdogs alerted to fears over VAT on bills: Addition of tax threatens to compound errors in estimated charges00:02
Ready to put the boot in: The boardroom split at shoemaker C&J Clark threatens to break out into open warfare. Russell Hotten reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Angels beneath a stuffed flying turtle: American Ghosts & Old World Wonders - Angela Carter: Chatto, pounds 13.9900:02
Letter: No soap please, we're novelists00:02
Racing: High Premium proves costly for the punters: Paul Hayward reports from Doncaster on a long-awaited win in the Lincoln Handicap00:02
Meeting Mrs T00:02
Business and City in Brief: Savings launch00:02
Briefly: Hangings in Japan00:02
Rugby Union: Lions' weakness is already an open secret00:02
Business and City in Brief: Italian deficit00:02
New vintage00:02
Football: Taylor's striker struggle: Norman Fox finds England's attack in the post-Lineker period is a cause for concern00:02
Last chance to find a tax shelter: Pension contributions are one way that you can still beat the Inland Revenue's deadline. Christine Stopp reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Mischief - Chris Wilson: Flamingo, pounds 4.9900:02
Employment: Workers face low blow in the war over wages: Scrapping wages councils will hurt the weakest, says Ian Hunter00:02
Destinies collide on the Nile: Robert Fisk takes a train journey to the Valley of the Kings where the signposts of Islamic resurgence mark the end of Egypt's tourist trail00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Aching-Bones refuses to be laid to rest00:02
ARTS / Show People: Long player gets another spin: 70. Richard Skinner00:02
News in Brief: March for Daf jobs00:02
The angry south, the weary north: Irish people voice their feelings on the horrors of the IRA's Warrington bombs and the loyalist shootings of Catholics00:02
Football: Final act lacks goodwill00:02
Political Commentary: Labour and that old-time religion00:02
Reggae trinity ascend to the heights of a pop chart heaven00:02
A hatred that will keep Ulster's terror machine running smoothly: David McKittrick finds that in its northern ghettos the IRA retains a fanatical support00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Football: Pompey on up and up00:02
Q&A: A pigeon's part in the downfall of Dujon . . . and the crossbar that pole-axed Keelan00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hoch analysed: Cut With the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch - Maud Lavin: Yale, pounds 27.5000:02
RECORDS / Rock: Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol, LP/CD/ tape)00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
'Patients raped' at mental hospital00:02
Rugby Union: Underwood a lonely spark00:02
PROPERTY / For sale: old house with a bit of garden: Jonathan Sale on a new Act to curb agents' hyperbole00:02
Prudential demands changes at Spring Ram00:02
Business and City in Brief: Brierley win00:02
Business and City in Brief: EFM Dragon wins Drayton00:02
Letter: Churchill knew about mustard gas00:02
Six-year hell of teacher beaten up by a pupil: Teachers face more than physical threats in the classroom. John Arlidge reports00:02
News in Brief: Fire started by dog00:02
Football: Phillips keeps Barnet in the battle00:02
European units regaining ground00:02
Your Oscar is no big deal: Cynthia Heimel explains why Americans don't give a damn about Emma Thompson00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
A rare event on the Thames: Oxford didn't win, so Cambridge must have done then00:02
RADIO / Things Chris said to mike00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: Walking into the River - Lorian Hemingway: Simon & Schuster, pounds 14.9900:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: A year since Punch died00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: False Gods - Louis Auchincloss: Constable, pounds 14.9900:02
ROCK / Merry Easter, Mr Bowie,you're back on form: David Bowie's new album is his best in donkey's years, they say. But they're not sure they want you to hear it. Ben Thompson got hold of a copy00:02
Flotation in view as Clark rebels act to block bidder00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
How We Met: David Sweetman and Franco Zeffirelli00:02
ART MARKET / War Memorials: Inspired by the Cubists and Futurists, C R W Nevinson painted battlefield scenes of haunting psychological power. One is now up for sale00:02
Summer time arrives00:02
Briefly: Indian hijacking00:02
Letter: Hong Kong was no accident00:02
Briefly: Andreotti shock00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
SCIENCE / How the West is attacking Russia: As tropical rainforests disappear, logging companies move into the north. Fred Pearce on a new ecological threat00:02
Bunhill: A prince among men not his own00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Focus, finesse, now seduction: Pelleas et Melisande - Debussy; Israel in Egypt - Handel; Passion and Resurrection - Jonathan Harvey00:02
Argentine army probes evidence over shooting