19 MARCH 1994, page 27

City And Suburban

Reality is breaking in all over, and it comes as a terrible shock CHRISTOPHER FILDES S cene: Hollywood. Two functionaries are comparing notes. One of them makes the ritual......

Lawyers Take All

THIS WEEK'S cautionary tale from Lloyd's of London comes at the expense of 44 mem- bers who suffered at the hands of Oakeley Vaughan. They tried the effect of suing Lloyd's for......

Cooling Off

WHAT IS a department of environmental studies? Something that puts an extra mil- lion pounds on to a college's appeal for funds. So I thought it a bad sign when the Institute of......

Uphill Finish

WHAT A pleasure to see Flakey Dove storm home in the Champion Hurdle with- out the Chancellor of the Exchequer trying to creep up on her inside. Year after year, chancellors......

Loss Will Find A Way

THE BANKS have been worrying Alan Abelson, my opposite number at Barron's in New York. In his column 'Up and Down Wall Street' he poses the question: how will they get it wrong......