The Independent dated Thursday November 24th 1993
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The 20th anniversary of the murder of toddler
James Bulger by 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson passed recently
and the more serious newspapers marked it by re-opening the great Nature Vs
Nurture debate – were these two children born evil or were they products of
their environment?
They were both released in 2001 after a parole board decided
they were no longer a threat to the Public. In 2010 Venables was sent back to
prison after being convicted for possession of child pornography.
The Ulster Volunteer Force was created in 1966 by a former
British Soldier with the aim of combating Republican attempts to free Northern
Ireland from British rule.
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When I worked in central London I spent a lot of time on the
Tube and dreaded those times when the packed rush hour train slowed to a halt
and the lights dimmed. The heat and the body-odour were nothing compared to the
uncertainty as to whether the train would ever start again.
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Definitely a case of she who sups with the Devil should have
a long spoon. Or, at least, have more sense than to voluntarily spent time
alone with a convicted murderer.
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Packard Bell Legend Elite with 170Mb of hard disk space! That’s 0.17 Gb! At the moment I
have 48 mpegs on my system, each one larger than that. It may well be a case of
rubbish expanding to fill the space provided for it. And don't get me started on the 16MHz processor on the Apple Macintosh.
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Silvio Berlusconi was born in Milan in 1936 and by 1993 had
amassed a fortune as the head of a business empire owning newspapers,
publishing, cinema, finance, banking, insurance, sports and more than half of
Italy’s TV output.
In
1993 he decided to enter politics and formed the anti-communist Forza Italia
Party and by 1994 started his first of three stints as Prime Minister. He has
been accused of corruption, neo-fascist sympathies, lying to the Electorate,
possible criminal dealings with Vladimir Putin, false accounting, tax evasion,
corruption and bribery of police officers and judges, witness bribery,
soliciting minors for sex, abuse of Political office and Mafia connections. He
also has the diplomatic tact of the Duke of Edinburgh at a meeting of the
Ethnic Minorities League.
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Hip-hop artist (whatever that means) Tupak
Shakur and others were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel
room. At the trial Shakur was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to 1½–4½
years in prison. After serving part of his sentence he was released on bail
pending appeal. In April 1996 he was sentenced to serve 120 days in jail for
violating terms of his bail. On September 13th 1996 he was murdered
in a drive-by shooting.
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If the Anti-gun ownership lobby in the USA want
proof that they are right and that strict gun control works, they should look
at Japan. They have very strict gun ownership laws and, despite what you might
see in Japanese crime films, on average about 12 homicides by shooting a year.
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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ was the first
of a long list of musicals written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Richard
Stilgoe, Ben Elton etc that I have never seen nor would want to. Oh! –
except ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ as
filmed by Norman Jewison.
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