1. Karzai was faultlessly polite in not chiding Britain for failing to get a better grip on the drugs crop in the south, the task it has been assigned within the international coalition.

2. The American actress, exquisitely dressed and coifed in high–Victorian style, her voice faultlessly English, exudes restrained grief in her role, which is pivotal to the novel‘s complex plot –– a typical Dickens assault on the inequity of mid–1'th century British society and the cruelty of its distorted and protracted legal system.

3. There are thoughts on the coming out of Michael Barrymore (‘The journey, not always as painful as you fear, will not be complete, however, until there is no one in the world, whom you know or whom you are to meet, to whom you would ever lie‘) and many notes from New Zealand and The Lord of the Rings (‘Peter Jackson‘s team found the perfect location in the wide gravelly valley that leads down from the alpine range west of Canterbury...‘). Particularly interesting is an article he wrote for the Bolton Evening News in September 1'58 on the occasion of his departure from his grammar school. ‘I long for a community where a faultlessly complete library is at hand, where a cinema declines to show bad films and a theatre presents new, good plays before they are old or have gone bad,‘ he wrote. ‘Utopias must be dull places, full of satisfied people in a lifetime of retirement, content and as active as ruminating cows; perfection, like complete virtue, is fortunately inhuman.