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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Suharto corruption case dismissed | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/indonesia | An Indonesian court has thrown out corruption charges against ex-dictator Suharto, ruling he was medically and mentally unfit to face charges. The decision was greeted with stunned silence by the several hundred spectators in the makeshift courtroom. While a few Suharto supporters rejoiced, angry prosecutors said they ... | 313 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Literacy | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/schools.rostaylor1 | Literacy Trust **** Aimed at: parents and teachers The Trust is a charity which promotes literacy for everyone, including adults, and is an excellent starting-point for teachers working on the literacy hour. The National Year of Reading activities which featured in this column two weeks ago have since been moved to the... | 529 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | global | Rock solid bohemians | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/07/artsfeatures1 | Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia is the new album from the Dandy Warhols. Tale one about the band is that their last album, Come Down, is a dreamy wash of psychedelic pop with more harmonies than a resort of Beach Boys. You might recall the catchy late 90s boredom of Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth: "I never ... | 1,210 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | money | Standard Life wins ballot | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/28/personalfinancenews.standardlife | Standard Life members yesterday rejected windfalls of £5,000 or more each in a powerful vote for mutuality. In a setback for carpetbaggers, 54.3% of the 1.1m policyholders who voted opted to keep Standard Life mutual. The carpetbaggers needed 75% of the vote to force Standard Life to float on the stock market but picke... | 588 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Voluntary amputee ran disability site | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/kirstyscott2 | The row over a British surgeon's decision to amputate two men's healthy limbs intensified yesterday after it was revealed that the doctor knew that one of the men ran a website for people who are sexually interested in amputees. It has also emerged that the operations performed by Robert Smith at Falkirk and district r... | 521 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Leader: Serbian elections - a result tailored to order | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/balkans.guardianleaders | A flurry of high-level meetings this week in New York, Washington and Zagreb has served to underscore the west's impotence in the face of mounting evidence that Slobodan Milosevic will perpetrate a massive fraud in Yugoslavia's September 24 presidential election. US officials said that Mr Milosevic was making "substant... | 524 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | society | Doctors and nurses to be trained together to relax elitist divide | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/may/15/futureofthenhs.health | Doctors will train alongside nurses and other health professionals in an attempt to end remoteness and elitism within the medical profession, under a radical scheme proposed for the NHS. The recommendation, from one of the modernisation action teams set up by the health secretary, Alan Milburn, is likely to be incorpor... | 652 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | British cash behind bid to combat Mugabe | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/zimbabwe.theobserver | A prominent group of British and American politicians and businessmen - many with energy and mining interests in Zimbabwe - are behind an international organisation to fund opposition to the regime of Robert Mugabe. The Zimbabwe Democracy Trust, whose patrons include former Tory Foreign Secretaries Malcolm Rifkind, Dou... | 919 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Is it right to put the media on trial? Yes | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing | South Africa is recovering from apartheid, the worst type of racism and abuse of human rights. Our national parliament created the Human Rights Commission to safeguard the rights of all South Africans, and to ensure that people are not discriminated against or abused because of race, religion, creed or culture. Governm... | 333 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | Danger signals | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | Wenlock Edge "The wild deer, wand'ring here and there/Keeps the Human Soul from Care," wrote William Blake. Two young deer step from the hedge where it corners away from the woods. They stand, heads and ears up, their sides dappled with spots like flecks of sunlight. But it's a grey, mizzly day - a wet mist pattering t... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | December 6 ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/overnights | Gambling is becoming the new rock 'n' roll for Channel 4, with Late Night Poker already a fixture in the schedule and now documentary The Gambler proving a high-roller in the audience stakes. The Gambler, the first instalment of a series that follows writer Jonathan Rendell as he bets £12,000 of Channel 4's money on ev... | 174 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Further education funding council's final AGM | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/furthereducation.theguardian3 | Tricky occasions, funerals. Sometimes emotions boil over and heated words fly. "Crap" was the most common verdict from college principals as they listened to the new man in their lives - John Harwood. The chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council delivered his first speech at the final AGM of the Further Educa... | 434 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | environment | Gene map will revolutionise farming | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/dec/14/gm.agriculture | Thalecress is a weed but it promises to trigger a new agricultural revolution: for the first time, scientists have unravelled the complete DNA blueprint of a plant. Some 300 scientists across the world have spent £50m on a six-year hunt to identify the 116m "base pairs" that make up the genetic code of Arabidopsis thal... | 333 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | money | Hang on - that's my job | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/14/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | It came as a shock at Greenwich when the Millennium Dome's chief executive, Jennie Page, was abruptly forced to resign just over a week ago. In part, of course, this was because of the harsh nature of the termination, which is believed to have happened without caution or consultation. But it was also because none of th... | 1,376 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | business | Nats sell-off hits more turbulence | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/14/2 | The government may be powerless to prevent a takeover by France or Germany of Britain's £1bn air traffic control service if it proceeds with its controversial plans to sell off the business, treasury sources confirmed last night. The treasury's view is that ministers would not be able to place a protective cocoon aroun... | 864 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | technology | Games watch | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/onlinesupplement5 | PS2 speak Taito is due to release a speech recognition system and a companion game, Greatest Striker, for the Sony PlayStation 2 in Japan today. The triangular Taito Speech Recognition System, which attaches to a headset and microphone, plugs into a USB serial communications port. A compatible Mah Jong game is expected... | 381 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | media | Don't club this culture | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/21/business.mondaymediasection | It is still not clear who 'leaked' the story claiming the Government was including the privatisation of Channel 4 in its next manifesto. In the game of smoke and mirrors which these days passes for political communication, suggested culprits include: the Treasury looking for the next item of family silver to flog; Down... | 958 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | world | Boots stamps out Dome queues | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/07/millennium.uk | The queues for the dome's body zone disappeared yesterday after its sponsor, Boots, said it was not happy that visitors were being made to wait nearly an hour for the seven-minute experience. The high street chemist, which has yet to pay a penny of its £12m deal, denied it had "held a gun to the head" of the New Millen... | 720 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | How a broken rail exposed the cracks in a fragmented industry | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness10 | On a grey afternoon in London last Wednesday the principal players in the railway industry sat down to discuss how to work together. It was the first time they had done so since privatisation began six years ago. Railtrack was formed in 1994, British Rail's freight operations were sold two years later and all the passe... | 1,029 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | politics | Student arrested over Shayler link | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/07/freedomofinformation.uk | A student supporter of the exiled former MI5 officer David Shayler was released on bail today after being questioned by special branch police over an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act. Julie-Ann Davies, a 36-year-old mature student of aerospace engineering at Kingston university in Surrey, was arrested yesterd... | 558 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | A year of reckoning | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime | Now that the dust has settled and the rubble has been cleared, it is time to check the foundations. The Macpherson report fell like a bombshell on the British political and cultural landscape. Into what had appeared to be a fairly simple narrative between good (the Lawrence family) and evil (the five young men suspecte... | 1,973 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Closer, but still no Cuban cigars | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/cuba.comment | Fidel Castro occupies a special place in America's pantheon of rogue leaders. As the only communist leader in the western hemisphere, his very proximity to the US serves to make him a particular bugbear for the American political establishment. John F Kennedy endured one of his most lacerating humiliations with the bot... | 728 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Food parcels scheme for students | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/highereducation.theguardian1 | POWs, refugees and front line troops awaiting parachute drops come to mind when you hear talk of food parcels? Well, think again. Beleaguered students have now joined the ranks of those deserving emergency food aid. Late October is when the realities of living away from home start to break through the euphoria of fresh... | 1,224 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Homes of the past feature in minister's vision of future | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/peterhetherington | Folk singer Pete Seeger once called them tacky little boxes all looking the same. The rock star Morrisey launched a 1980s musical tirade against "ugly new houses" painting a vulgar picture. After years of controversy, the government yesterday finally signalled the end of the modern, off-the-shelf house - colloquially k... | 638 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | City's oscar awards descend into farce | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/7 | The Primark Extel awards, known as the City's "oscars", descended into farce yesterday when the organisers announced they had discovered "anomalies" in this year's results after a flood of complaints from disgruntled institutions. The awards were given out at a gala lunch at Guildhall last week, attended by Lastminute.... | 376 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | Magpie threat to songbirds | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/4 | Ornithologists says Britain's songbird population is being threatened by an explosion in the numbers of magpies. The bird, which has adapted to suburban areas and whose numbers are reported to have doubled in 12 months, will "kill an entire brood of blackbirds", according to Ian Henderson, of the British Trust for Orni... | 270 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | If the price is right: Artists' view of house-buying | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/maevkennedy | The house in Winchester in Hampshire is unquestionably des-res. There is a sale board outside and viewers will be handed a brochure, writes Maev Kennedy . But unease sets in on crossing the threshold. The clipboard-clutching guide assures viewers the owner has every intention of redecorating the bathroom - when he will... | 267 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Pick of the perks for this year's intake | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | If you're a cash-strapped student, it might not seem the banks are on your side. But many of today's students will be tomorrow's big earners, so banks are keen to woo them. Which is best? Here, Jobs & Money sets out the offerings from the top six banks - but look out for new perks this summer. Barclays offers the h... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | Suffering delusions of Bragueness | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/6 | Once upon a time in Britain we had Butskellism, the consensus that raising spending on welfare was preferable to cutting taxes. Butskellism - the merger of Rab Butler and Hugh Gaitskell, Tory and Labour - has been replaced by a new cross-party alliance: Bragueness. Tax levels are traditionally measured by the ratio of ... | 762 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Disaster families attack 'betrayal' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/ladbrokegrove.transport | Survivors and the families of victims of the Paddington and Southall rail crashes reacted angrily this weekend to news that the promised Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system will be fitted only on high-speed lines. Cheaper, less effective equipment will be used elsewhere. They accused the Government of putting cost ... | 491 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | us-news | Matthew Engel: Elections are always unmissable | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/07/uselections2000.usa20 | Right, have I got everything? Plenty of wood for the fire; black coffee; snacks; matches (for lighting up if it's tense, for propping open eyelids if it's boring); whisky for drowning sorrows (probably); pens; map of the United States for colouring in the results, TV doofer (where's it hidden THIS time, then?) to switc... | 1,036 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | The age of dissent | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/gender.uk | Fractal friction Gardener is in love with his new computer. He is in thrall to its fractals. For hours on end he glares at the swirling screen. Day turns into night, still he stares on. In the early hours he staggers to bed, rising red-eyed soon after dawn to return to the beloved machine and discover more of its charm... | 513 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Rover in talks with Mayflower over UK car future | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/rover.theobserver | MG Rover is set to approach UK engineering group and long-term supplier Mayflower about a partnership to invest in a future generation of British cars. Chairman John Towers insisted this weekend that such a move was not at odds with the resignation from MG Rover's supervisory board last Friday of Mayflower executive Te... | 368 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | Britain grinds to a halt as Blair's pleas are ignored | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/tonyblair.oil | An increasingly desperate Tony Blair yesterday warned that lives will be lost if the fuel blockades are not quickly lifted and blamed picket line intimidation for the complete failure to meet his ambitious promise of Tuesday evening that supplies would start to return to normal within 24 hours. With Britain close to sh... | 1,144 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | money | Consumer: Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/sep/28/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | Window pains Double glazing salesmen are an unloved and largely unlovable species. It's a reputation that some of them do their best to earn: they secure your life savings by means of a hyperbolic leaflet and smooth talking, and that's the last you hear of them. Krishna Ganase of south London, for instance, paid a £273... | 1,619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Conjoined twins to be separated next month | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/stevenmorris1 | The operation to separate conjoined twins Jodie and Mary has been set for the second week in November when they will be three months old, it emerged yesterday. Doctors treating the sisters at St Mary's hospital in Manchester will perform the operation sooner if their condition deteriorates. But fears that Mary, who wil... | 220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | All house prices to be published | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/rupertjones | In a move that will delight freedom of information campaigners and nosy neighbours, previous prices for homes in England and Wales are to be disclosed on official Land Registry documents, the lord chancellor, Lord Irvine, announced last night. The rule change, which will come into effect on April 1 and apply to all sal... | 502 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | politics | Portillo ally warns of election danger | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/21/uk.thatcher | Michael Portillo's closest ally yesterday launched a scathing attack on William Hague, labelling him as a weak leader who had failed to inspire confidence among Tory MPs and party workers. The former minister Eric Forth made clear that he had given up any hope of winning the general election when he warned that polling... | 326 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/efinance.internet | • Delivery Hi-tech firms IBM and Motorola yesterday confirmed they will work together to provide wireless data services to business customers worldwide. The two plan to help wireless carriers cope with demand for e-business services in the worldwide wireless market. The service will focus on the delivery of email, stoc... | 225 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Wealthcheck: Living off the credit card | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver1 | Janice Holmes Age 33 Lives in Portstewart, Northern Ireland Occupation Lecturer Earns £21,000 Mortgage £37,500 endowment Debts personal loan £15,000, credit cards £4,200 Investments None Pensions University superannuation scheme and FSAVC Aims To make ends meet Janice Holmes left Canada for Ireland 10 years ago, to do ... | 1,329 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | environment | Researchers find serious flood risk on US east coast | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/jul/15/weather.climatechange | American geologists say they have found evidence that large parts of the east coast of the United States are at risk from huge waves which could put cities like New York, Philadelphia and Washington at risk from serious flooding. Normally, the disaster-mongering strand in American life focuses its attention on the poss... | 466 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Can independents save their brands? | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/independentproductioncompanies.comment | In an open letter to the government, four leading independent production companies have put the case for keeping rights to their own programmes. Current practice, apart from ITV, is for broadcasters who commission programmes to insist on purchasing all rights. The independents' case is that they are the drivers of crea... | 506 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/1 | Banned protein found in French cattle feed A damning report by EU experts said yesterday that traces of outlawed meat and bone meal were still finding their way into French cattle feed last year, and warned that French farmers may be under-reporting cases of mad cow disease. Notification of suspect cases "occurs with a... | 1,010 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Leaking pipes row threatens roads gridlock | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/london.transport | The traffic chaos of London is poised to worsen dramatically as a single company prepares to dig 3,000 holes a week in the roads over the next year. The already jam-packed central area will bear the brunt, warns the firm, Thames Water. It is telling the Government that massive disruption will be unavoidable if it has t... | 531 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Maze emptied as terrorist prisoners walk free | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/northernireland | The Maze prison was almost empty tonight - just 15 inmates were left inside the 800 cells. By the end of the year most will have been released or transferred elsewhere and the top security prison finally shut down. The H Blocks emptied in just three hours today as the government freed the last big batch of 78 prisoners... | 1,154 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | business | French win Global One battle | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/28/4 | France Télécom was celebrating getting its international expansion strategy back on track yesterday after the announcement that it has reached a $4.35bn deal to buy out its partners in Global One. Shares in the French telecommunications group were up more than 4% in the wake of the deal which was struck late on Wednesd... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | technology | Smiths tries buy and fly service | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/21/efinance.shopping | WH Smith has opened a pilot store at Leeds city station offering customers everything from email facilities to airline and rail tickets - plus the chance to buy any book from the 1.3m currently in print, for collection as your plane touches down. If the trial is successful WH Smith plans to export the concept of books.... | 382 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Vote Tory for a federal superstate | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/emu.thatcher | On Tuesday morning William Hague reiterated that yes, he really did drink 14 pints a day in his youth. While millions have reacted to this boast with incredulity, I believe him. In fact, I'm not convinced he ever stopped. For the latest chapter of what the Tory leader calls his "common sense revolution" contains the fi... | 973 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | money | A lone hero stands up to the big banks | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/07/observercashsection.theobserver4 | Silence has descended over the battlefield where Government and consumers have been slogging it out with the banks. Since Don Cruickshank, the government-appointed investigator, delivered his damning report on the banks two months ago, little has been said about tackling the problem of the annual £5 billion of excess p... | 292 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Today's news and comment | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/societybriefing | News: The Queen's speech The speech, which was unashamedly populist, was deliberately targeted at middle England and played to the fears of the middle classes over crime and so-called 'yob culture'. http://www.societytheguardian.com Local government: Councillors now have the power to review their own pay and it could c... | 255 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | politics | Ashdown diaries put PM on the spot | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/21/uk.labour | Tony Blair is braced for criticism from within his own ranks next week when Paddy Ashdown publishes his diaries, disclosing exactly how close the pair got to forming a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition. Potentially embarrassing details of secret meetings and negotiations between the two party leaders risk triggering a ... | 2,190 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | British women feel the benefit of sex revolution | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/anthonybrowne.theobserver | After years of research, what British women have long complained about and British men have secretly feared has been confirmed: British men are flops in bed. British women, by contrast, are the most sexually liberated and self-confident in the English-speaking world. The findings are from a new report from the research... | 1,094 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | global | Southern discomfort | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/29/artsfeatures4 | Orpheus Descending *** Donmar Warehouse, London Anyone who still doubts that Tennessee Williams was a deeply political writer should see Orpheus Descending. This is a portrait of the American south as hell, a place beset with racism, bigotry and violence. The pity of it is that Williams's undeniable passion is almost b... | 543 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | uk-news | Passport pets enter UK | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/28/2 | A five-year-old pug dog has become the first animal to enter Britain using a pet passport. Frodo Baggins travelled from Calais in France to Dover on a cross-channel ferry with owner Helen de Borchgrave, of London, to take advantage of the relaxation in Britain's century-old quarantine regulations. After passing without... | 512 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | Drawing fire | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/pressandpublishing.mondaymediasection | The newspaper cartoon strip is part of the American way of life in a way that it never really has been - pace If . . . , Andy Capp, the Broons, Fred Bassett and the Gambols - in Britain. Many US papers run a couple of dozen every morning and when Charles Schulz announced that Peanuts was about to end after nearly 50 ye... | 2,157 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | media | BBC 'tries to bury' inquiry on equality | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/apr/28/bbc.uknews | The BBC is attempting to suppress details of a 16-month inquiry by the commission for racial equality which allegedly raises damaging suspicions of racism at the World Service. Investigations by the commission uncovered evidence that staff from ethnic minorities were not promoted beyond junior grades, procedures to mon... | 848 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Out of the deep freeze | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/northernireland.guardianleaders | After the bleak midwinter, there are the first signs of spring. After a month in the deep freeze, the peace process in Northern Ireland is thawing back into life. The politicians were exhausted following Peter Mandelson's decision to collapse Northern Ireland's new executive and to suspend the assembly. The bargain whi... | 523 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | A fine figure of a man, pity he's made of cardboard | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/15/rorycarroll | Emerging from the apartment block one morning this week, our downstairs neighbour, Marcello, discovered that, in parking his car, he had blocked the butcher's van. It was unforgivable, the butcher declared, a cretinous act that had stopped honest people going about their business while the perpetrator lazed in bed. Mar... | 739 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | global | We will survive | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/29/artsfeatures7 | Though they no longer dominate hip-hop as they did 10 years ago, it's worth remembering that, before Public Enemy, rap was not an instinctively political medium. And after much internal strife and external adversity, they survive, to remind young upstarts who the original perpetrators were and, more importantly, provid... | 343 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | politics | Blair warns core voters to beware 'extremist' Tories | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/14/uk.labour | Tony Blair yesterday fired the first shots of a year-long general election campaign in which Downing Street will attempt to mobilise Labour's traditional supporters by spreading scare stories about the dangers of a Tory comeback. Amid fears that the Conservative threat is being under-estimated, the prime minister issue... | 636 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | world | The head of a billion Catholics faces calls that he should resign | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/13/catholicism.religion1 | When the Pope bequeathed his millennium message to 50,000 children in St Peter's Square last week, he enlisted their good hearts against the horrendous exploitation of children in the world - economic, sexual and military. But to that he added: "How can we forget the many children who are denied even the right to be bo... | 729 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | Traditional healers help find new cures | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/4 | The root bark of an African tree could provide a new treatment to control thrush, athlete's foot, and fungal infections of the eye, thanks to advice from traditional healers and medicine men. Kurt Hostettmann, of the university of Lausanne, has been using tribal knowledge to track down new medicines. But, he told the A... | 568 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | world | Stone Age rebels risk wrath of Indonesia | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/06/indonesia.theobserver | Erson Wenda stands on a ridge above the remote Baliem Valley, gesturing wildly with his arms, tears in his eyes. 'The soldiers came from over there. They took people from my village, tying their hands, and brought them to these holes.' He bends forward, his hands behind him, re-enacting what happened when 11 of his ter... | 1,451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | global | Pop review: Everclear | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/14/artsfeatures | Oregon trio Everclear always managed to be down at the shops when the zeitgeist came knocking, but it seems as if they're finally in the right place at the right time. American rock is currently at its most bankable since grunge, with the last few months witnessing guitars replacing samplers as the sexy instrument and ... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Modern guy | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/tonyblair.politics | A smiling Tony Blair was pictured on yesterday's New York Times magazine, holding his infant child-to-be, an artist's impression of how the prime minister will look as a proud father, above the headline: Tony Blair, Modern Guy. The portrait reflected a complimentary profile of Mr Blair as a new brand of world leader an... | 432 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-13 | world | Will Hutton: Why I admire Putin | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/13/russia.comment | Building a state is a monumental, precarious and rarely peaceful business. Even some states we now consider natural parts of the landscape are recent creations which have stood on the edge of disintegration within living memory. Losing the colonial war in Algeria nearly brought France to its knees. From South Korea to ... | 1,522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | uk-news | Shayler faces third charge | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/davidshayler | Former MI5 intelligence officer David Shayler was charged with a third count of breaking the Official Secrets Act today, when he made his second appearance before magistrates. Mr Shayler was charged with passing on material obtained through telephone-tapping - an offence against section 4 of the Official Secrets Act - ... | 382 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | IMF chief hits at protesters | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/11 | The acting head of the IMF defended globalisation as Washington braced itself for Seattle-style protests. Stanley Fischer said it could become a dirty word but that the process was the only way to raise incomes around the world. "Trying to stop it will make people worse off rather than better off," he said. Both the IM... | 106 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | uk-news | Allow the victims tell their stories | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/06/northernireland.theobserver | 'You lived for 11 days after the bomb. They say your arms and legs fell off when you died. I was only 14 years old and very frightened. Frightened to look at your charred face, your badly swollen lips and eyes, the tubes in your throat... The smell of burning flesh never really goes away. God, how must you have felt kn... | 970 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | global | Why the need for a 'Grandparents' section | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/14/features11.g21 | 'We are a grandmother," Margaret Thatcher once famously said. In fact, one in three adults is - or are, if you prefer - a grandparent. Despite the fact that many women now postpone having their first child until they are 30, the average age to become a grandparent is still just 50. Most of these maintain regular contac... | 1,072 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Rostrum: | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/furthereducation.theguardian2 | I felt a sense of real occasion when I spoke last Thursday at the final AGM and principals' conference of the Further Education Funding Council. I say a sense of occasion and not sadness, because I believe the future holds exciting challenges - and this can never be a reason to be despondent. However I could not resist... | 700 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | Taking care of business | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/8 | Firms making products ranging from buses to lava lamps are among those today granted the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2000. The Queen announced 77 awards for international trade, 32 for innovation and seven for environmental achievement. There are more awards this year in the innovation and environmental achievement ca... | 2,113 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | National round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/4 | Best 'on the wagon for good' The former Manchester United football star, George Best, last night pledged never to drink again. In an interview screened on TV, he insisted he had finally faced up to his alcoholism. He also revealed that he hoped to start a family with his wife, Alex, 27, and to live to approach 100 like... | 852 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | politics | Prescott rules out deal with Livingstone | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/28/londonmayor.uk2 | Ken Livingstone will today intensify speculation that he is on the verge of abandoning the Labour party when he makes his most confident prediction that he would be swept into office as London mayor if he stood as an independent. As John Prescott made clear that the Labour leadership sees no grounds for a compromise de... | 635 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Face to face at last | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/northkorea.guardianleaders | The sun smiled down on South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine policy" yesterday as the reclusive leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, broke cover and showed up at the airport to greet him at the start of a ground-breaking, three-day summit in Pyongyang. The gesture of welcome was unexpectedly gracious, and was ... | 414 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/7 | BAE buys Lockheed unit BAE Systems has bought Lockheed Martin Control Systems for £323m to help it stay in the race to supply technologies for the next generation of aircraft. Control Systems designs and makes digital fly-by-wire controls and engine systems for military and civil aircraft. BAE already operates in those... | 545 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | politics | Cook bounces back as cheerleader for euro | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/28/labour.labour1997to99 | The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, will today deliver a speech billed as his most important since his ethical mission statement soon after the general election. He will cover everything from the rules of intervention through to Britain's membership of the United Nations security council, but most interest will surround... | 1,129 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | Diagnosis good for Scottish NHS plan | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/health.comment | Scotland has a new health plan - and not before time, some would say. Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has taken six months to catch up with her counterpart in England and Wales, Alan Milburn. He set his stall out back in July in a joyous New Labour extravaganza, the prime minister well to the fore, with lashings ... | 677 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | Jospin's comments in Middle East drive wedge between PM and president | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/israel | The French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, was yesterday left licking literal and metaphorical wounds after a three-day Middle East visit that saw him stoned by angry Palestinian students and publicly reprimanded by President Jacques Chirac for his apparently pro-Israeli stance. Mr Jospin, who flew back to France - and ... | 536 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | ReplayTV sheds half its staff | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/citynews.broadcasting1 | Personal video recorder manufacturer ReplayTV, the US rival to TiVo, has axed nearly half its staff and is abandoning the consumer electronics market. The company said late on Monday that it was cutting back on the manufacture and direct marketing of its personal video recorder boxes and interactive TV service to consu... | 330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Heads warn of school funds 'scandal' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/news | Millions of pupils are being short-changed by "scandalous" disparities in public funding for education across different parts of the country, headteachers warn today. In an appeal for the government to fund state schools directly from Whitehall instead of through local authorities the Secondary Heads Association said e... | 558 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Pop star's son found hanged | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/4 | The bass player of the 80s pop band Culture Club told an inquest yesterday that he felt a lapse in checks by staff on a prison healthcare wing had given his son the opportunity to hang himself. Mikey Craig's son Keita, 22, who had mental health problems, died at Wandsworth prison, south-west London, on February 1, West... | 174 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | technology | Driving miss crazy | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/28/motoring1 | I regard myself a modern woman, a feminist even. I've read all the right books and take strong positions on women's role in society. I applaud the birth of New Man with his developed sensitivity, his ability to cry and be open about his feelings and his celebration of women's equality. But something happened recently w... | 1,033 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Man killed after row over hedge | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/keithperry | A retired civil servant was shot dead yesterday after arguing with his neighbour over a hedge dividing their gardens. The police armed response team was called to the area after neighbours reported shots at the home of Llanis Burdon, 56. A gun was taken from the scene. Last night a 61-year-old man was being questioned ... | 338 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Lebanon: what the regional press is saying | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/israelandthepalestinians.lebanon | Syria should now understand that Israel's commitment to withdraw from Lebanon, with or without an agreement on the Golan, has graduated from a frayed campaign promise to a broad-based government decision. Jerusalem Post, Israeli daily The public has realized that the losses wrought by the invasion of certain parts of L... | 199 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | uk-news | Search widened as fears for missing boy grow | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/14/4 | Hopes are fading that a five-year-old boy, who vanished yesterday during a day trip to a Norfolk beach, will be found alive. The search for Jake Parker widened at dawn, with three lifeboats, divers and a shore patrol scanning the coastline around Brancaster beach in north Norfolk. However Peter Furlong, coastguard sect... | 584 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Japan begins review of its pacifist constitution | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/jonathanwatts | Japan's parliament broke its strictest postwar taboo yesterday by launching the first review of the country's pacifist constitution since it was imposed by the United States in 1947. The outcome of the process, which is expected to take at least five years, is far from certain. But the very fact that it has begun is a ... | 698 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | education | Assurance of quality that spans diversity | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/21/tefl5 | Britain has a deservedly high reputation for education, especially for teaching English. Coming to Britain is an excellent way for anyone to improve his or her English. There are so many different places in the UK where you can learn English - small privately owned schools, medium-sized schools, schools that are part o... | 1,021 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | Business: Market forces | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/1 | Emerging markets exhibition and conference organiser ITE Group was catching the eye of City traders yesterday on talk that a major re-rating of the company's shares could be on the cards. In July, ITE said it was in takeover discussions with a number of potential buyers. However, the nature of the discussions changed b... | 889 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | Auto pilot | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/21/onlinesupplement2 | What does Kenjin offer that conventional search engines don't? Kenjin is an extremely effective way of showing users how information can be brought to them, as opposed to their having to seek it out. You can ask Kenjin to keep an eye on whatever you're typing or reading. It can then suggest related resources and presen... | 631 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | politics | Spycatcher peer backs secrecy code | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/21/uk.freedomofinformation | The government's freedom of information bill won the active support of a single peer when it faced a barrage of renewed criticism during its second reading in the upper house yesterday. Support came from the former cabinet secretary, Lord Armstrong of Ilminister, the Whitehall official who travelled to Australia to try... | 384 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Royal variety performance brings the house down | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/uk.monarchy | A copy of yesterday's Guardian tucked in my back pocket, I went to the gallery in the House of Lords. I was anxious. As the only representative of Britain's leading republican organ, I would be face to face with the Queen. Admittedly 100 yards away, but her glare can famously carry further than a 12-bore cartridge from... | 817 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | New clue to why Scott's men died | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/maevkennedy | Captain Scott and four members of his Antarctic team might have died of starvation and thirst because the leather washers on their fuel canisters perished and allowed precious fuel to evaporate. The fuel ran out and the exhausted, frostbitten men, on the march back from discovering that the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, h... | 314 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | global | GM food protests | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/21/qanda | After 28 Greenpeace activists, including former Labour minister Lord Melchett, were cleared over the destruction of a field of genetically modified maize, environmental groups says that government plans to increase GM trials are doomed. Wendy Gracefield explains the issues. What were the protesters in court for? Lord M... | 801 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | Heaven Eyes | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/29/educationalbooks6 | Heaven Eyes by David Almond Published by Hodder £10 Erin, January and Mouse run away from the children's home where they live and set sail on a raft down the river. They are rescued by Heaven Eyes, a girl with webbed hands and feet who believes they are her lost siblings. Set largely in a dilapidated warehouse, Almond'... | 164 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Record oil profits set to fuel anger | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/money.personalfinancenews | The oil giants are set to announce record third-quarter profits as the spiralling price of crude and huge refining margins combine to produce results 100 per cent up on last year. Analysts are predicting that the third-quarter profits to be announced over the coming weeks from UK and European oil majors will represent ... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | politics | Labour's two parties | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/28/labour.labour1997to991 | Junior minister Stephen Timms rose to address the Labour party faithful in Norwich on Saturday framed by history and proclamation. To his right a banner for the Amalgamated Engineering Union announcing "Unity is Strength"; to his left a display of the early labour movement in Norfolk presenting a "rousing speech" made ... | 1,390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | Publicis snaps up Saatchi & Saatchi | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/8 | French advertising group Publicis yesterday snapped up Saatchi & Saatchi after it agreed to pay £1.3bn in shares to create the world's fifth largest group in the sector. The deal is expected to set off further consolidation in a market where margins are already squeezed by enlarged and powerful media companies such... | 685 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | politics | Rabble soother's surprise ovation | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/21/liberaldemocrats | The Liberal Democrat conference agenda announced "Speech by the Rt Hon Alan Beith MP". Normally this would not provoke great excitment - a demonstration of quick drying paint might cause more adrenalin to spurt - and indeed the hall was less than full. Mr Beith is a amiable and quietly spoken man, who happens to be dep... | 749 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | global | Private Lives | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/07/features11.g22 | After 25 years of an outwardly contented marriage, I find myself in love with an unattached woman and she with me. She was one of my wife's best friends. My wife, very successful in her job (with attendant single-mindedness and fatigue), closed the bedroom door many years ago, before our much loved but mechanically con... | 1,802 |
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