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Celebrated Poet
Brian Patten
That Dress, This Shirt
That dress won’t stop you growing older, no matter how you wear it-
Nor will this baggy shirt I wear disguise anymore
A stomach growing fatter by the hour.
Now that we no longer have Tim...
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Andrea Ross
The Soprano with a Voice Like a Teenager
When she was involved in a show in
Boston, Andrea Ross sent
her music tape out to Andrew Lloyd-Webber, the Britishcomposer
she had admired since she was a child.
She did not think anythi...
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Hooker Capitalism is Our Problem
What Can Be Done?
The ensuing financial crisis has gradually proven that we’re all in a terrible social situation. It is not just about how and why banking systems began to collapse one after another. The ...
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Obama and America by Alexei Talimonov
Ukrainian born Alexei Talimonov is a successful and award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. He is a member of The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain and the FECO. Alexei has exhibited his works worldw...
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Win
The 'Poet of the Month' title
Words paint the picture of our imaginations. They form our ideas. Ideas influence the way we think. Thinking determines our personalities. Personality determines who we are and how we live- so say them any great philoso...
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The Carnage inflicted on Innocent people
The bomb blasts in Bombay show once again that the terrorists have only one aim in life - to maim and kill as many innocent people as they possibly can to further their cause. They will go to any lengths and use...
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Brian Patten
That Dress, This Shirt
That dress won’t stop you growing older, no matter how you wear it-
Nor will this baggy shirt I wear disguise anymore
A stomach growing fatter by the hour.
Now that we no longer have Time’s currency to sq...
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Notice to the Publishers
SOCIETY TODAY Magazine would like to
receive publishers' new titles (books, audio and video) by both
established and new authors for its reviews. Topics can include:
Fiction - dealing with society and human spirits, et...
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LUXURY LIVING INDEX FORECASTS SPENDING & LIFESTYLE TRENDS OF SUPER-AFFLUENT
Britain’s wealthiest consumers are set to spend more on ‘life experiences’, holidays, property and charitable giving over the coming year, according to a new index exam...
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By Margaret Laird
Gordon Brown aspired to his “turn” as Prime Minister for as long as any of us can remember. His 10 years as Chancellor under Tony Blair, marked by major reform of Britain’s monetary and fiscal policy, the transfer of intere...
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Economic Downturn
What Can the Business Community Do?
-by Dame Julia Cleverdon
As Chief Executive of Business in the Community for the last seventeen years I have watched an explosion of business engagement in communities in the last decade and I va...
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Available 8 September from ICA
Spending childhood watching the world pass by through the frame of the family car’s windows could doom someone into life as a photographer. Annie Leibovitz, Life Through a Lens, is a requiem to the groundbreaker...
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What is it?
-Society Today Staff Writer
“East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet,” the old aphorism with echoes of Kipling and Forster seems to ring more menacing these days. After decades of coexistence and mut...
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Peter Burden
Proposals for a revised, 80% elected House of Lords were debated at the Labour policy forum in Warwick University last month, and once again came to no firm conclusions. Since 1999, when Tony Blair’s government removed the majority of h...
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David Morris
It is an archetypal English afternoon, halfway into the last week of Wimbledon. High white clouds scud across the summer sky revealing lakes of blue periodically. A gentle westerly drives them inland and sun creates sparkle in the gently und...
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Jonathan Fryer
When Russia launched its August military intervention in Georgia, the West was reminded how dangerous it is to poke a sleeping bear with a stick. The particular provocation that enraged the beast was Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvil...
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Vitali Vitalev
“No wonder this bit of London rejoices in the name of Barking” --Daily Mail
“Early in the morning,” a pastel painting inside the historic St Margaret’s Church in the London borough of Barking, was based on John 21:14. I...
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“The key to wealth is to get out of depression of mind”
- Professor Mohammad Yunus
Prof Mohamed Yunus is a man who smiles gently but speaks highly of the poor and vulnerable of the world. And yet his own nation Bangladesh is still known to be one...
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Whilst the economy is hitting hard and has caused slides in the business confidence of entrepreneurs, many believe media can worsen the fear of people. But we investigated to find out who has done the best in business life of society, who then went on t...
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Countless courts, legislative bodies, and pundits have sought to produce definitions of The Internet. Their attempts have at times been poor and misconstrued. Many definitions do not agree. Some talk about applications. Is The Internet the technical specs...
