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Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 03.30 EST The dinner dances hosted by Robert and Betty Maxwell at their Italianate mansion in Oxford, Headington Hill Hall, were reckoned, even by hardened partygoers, to be in a class of their own. Every year on Maxwell’s birthday, the great and good would descend in their droves to enjoy his hospitality. Labour party grandees would rub shoulders with captains of industry, leading scientists with newspapers editors. But the party to celebrate Maxwell’s 65th birthday in June 1988 was confidently predicted to outdo them all in terms of both opulence and pomp. The US president, Ronald Reagan, sent a telegram of congratulations: “Nancy and I are delighted to join in the chorus of appreciation.” So did the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who extolled Maxwell’s “sense of direction and decision” – very similar, she noted, to her own. As far as the then Labour leader, Neil Kinnock was concerned, “If Bob Maxwell didn’t exist, ....
New York Times: W.H.O. experts investigating the origin of the virus visit a lab in Wuhan Posted on A team of experts from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the pandemic visited a research center in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday that has been a focus of several unfounded theories about the coronavirus. The W.H.O. scientists met with staff members at the center, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which houses a state-of-the-art laboratory known for its research on coronaviruses. The institute came under scrutiny last year as the Trump administration promoted the unsubstantiated theory that the virus might have leaked from a government-run laboratory in China. But many senior American officials have said in private that evidence pointing to a lab accident is mainly circumstantial. ....
A PROMINENT study published towards the end of 2020 through Cambridge University made the stark discovery: “This is the first generation in living memory to have a global majority who are dissatisfied with the way democracy works while in their twenties and thirties.” This has received significant coverage in parts of Scotland’s media and academia. The study found that “in almost every global region it is among 18 to 34-year-olds that satisfaction with democracy is in steepest decline.” These findings apply to Western capitalist countries in general and Scotland and Britain in particular. The truth is that Scotland, just like Britain as a whole, isn’t a democracy and never has been. ....
walnut creek and you see the cars going around a curve. another gorgeous day in the bay area 70s and 80s all around the bay we will have a full weather. now traffic we will have more traffic no hot spots have an uneasy ride on for this friday to arrest abomey in the beating of the giants then that bryan stowe. as happened the man that was once allegedly involved in the beating may be raised at is tolerated. bryan stowe was attacked outside the stadium he was hospitalized and placed in a, police released pitchers of the attackers giants and dodgers players and an honor celselva. he is transferred to another medical facility give money ramirez they call him the prime suspect. may 24th ramirez, attorney said that his daughter could testified that he was with are the night of they get back and was never at the stadium ramirez is sent back to prison because of a parole violation. then increased the amount of the reward fund not for information concerning the rest. ....
this morning although there was a minor back up on the bay bridge toll plaza but it never added more than two minutes to your drive time. there is no longer any backup or delay. the drive time is about 12 minutes from the macarthur maze of the upper deck of the bridge. > 7:01 a.m., 2 suspects were arrested on wednesday in the bryan stow beating case. their names have not been released. police arrested giovanni ramirez back in may calling him the primary aggressor in the attack. here is his attorney. i fig now the world understands what i know from day one, that giovanni ramirez has always been innocent. hot will tran is taking a look at the condition of bryan still from the hospital. the family of brands still is fully aware of the developments coming out of los angeles. for now they re just went to monitor the situation. their focus has always been on brian because they want him to make a full recovery. good news to pass along, it seems that he can respond to v ....