The results of national curriculum tests taken by 1.2 million 11 and 14-year-olds in England are to be delivered to schools a week late amid concerns over the accuracy of marking. Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, announced that more time was needed ...
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Paul Thomas Anderson's ragingly intense There Will Be Blood, dazzlingly unlike his last offering, the brilliant, spiky Punch Drunk Love (2002), is the most ambitious film of the year, an experimental historical epic with mythic overtones. Violent as ...
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Black shoes squared, John Manson stands straight and true, as though out of respect to the history he has recounted for 30 years. His uniform, forest green and gray, is pressed and relatively unadorned: a small nametag over one chest pocket, a gold ...
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LOS ANGELES -- Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. His publicist, Jerry Digney, said he died at ...
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The Fourth of July arrives at a gloomy moment. More than three-quarters of Americans say the country is not going "in the right direction," according to an Associated Press poll. But the 232nd anniversary of the durability and success of the American ...
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Every year around this time we hear the complaints: There aren't enough good parts for women, actresses are relegated to decorative supporting roles, the movies have become a man's world. We beg to differ, at least for the moment. "Sex and the City ...
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"When my stepdad went to Iraq, half my heart went with him," says a youngster featured in Nickelodeon's special about the burdens that war and its aftermath place on children. "Coming Home: When Parents Return From the Front," the latest in the line ...
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Once a week, my mail package arrives from The Independent foreign desk in London. It contains anything up to 250 letters and parcels, and wherever I am – in the hot smog of Cairo, amid the Atlantis towers of Dubai or on my own flower-smothered ...
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Teh only way is up ... Gemma Bowes surfing in Hossegor. Photograph: Picasa 2.7 Slowly pulling the long ribbon of my wetsuit's zip up my spine, I looked out across the midnight blue water and surveyed the swell. Out there lay my first waves. I couldn ...
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