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When Dr Maathai came home after half a decade in America, she found huge changes. They were not all for the better. Kenya had gained its independence just two years before, and political power was now...

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In many ways it seems odd that Wangari Maathai’s life should have been so closely associated with struggle. Success appeared to come almost effortlessly to her, even though her origins were humble. Sh...

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Books and Arts; Book review; Black magic in London; Crimes of passion; The Boy in the River. By Richard Hoskins. In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young and newly married, spent six years as a mi...

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As a student in Berlin, he irked Hitler by refusing to meet him. In 1938, as Austria’s leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs’ scion offered to return and rally resistance. Luckily, he di...

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If only his great-uncle had died earlier. Franz Joseph I was a masterful ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but his 86 years brought rigidity when the times called for reform. This doomed the noble...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Classical music; Conjurors; Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras. By Tom Service. IN “FANTASIA”, Walt Disney's 1940 film of musically ...

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In 1940, when she was living as a newlywed in Vichy France, it could have been another American Bar, this one in the Hôtel du Louvre et de la Paix in Marseilles. It was a chance encounter here with an...

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Books and Arts; Opera review; Einstein on the beach; Breaking the waves; An avant-garde opera on a rare world tour. THE music of “Einstein on the Beach” is so grand and epic—yet so mesmerising and...