Fast Track To Oblivion
Simon Barnes I WONDER how much longer track-andfield athletics can survive as a major professional sport. About a fortnight, if the world championships at Edmonton are anything......
Q. A Few Days Ago, Visiting Friends, I Was Invited
to a banya. Being English, I am bred to please and have a horror of 'causing a scene'. Refusal here in Russia requires explanation, and at the very thought of dissimulation my......
Q. For The Last 12 Years I Have Had My
hair cut by a stylist who has done an adequate job and made me laugh. When I went for my last appointment. I found that she had been called away and had booked me in to have my......
Q. My Stepmother Couldn't Be Nicer, But She Seems Incapable
of making a short telephone call to me — her calls go on for about half an hour, and no matter how many cues I give her she still finds something new to talk about. I bring......
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