But the guy has had a great career here and if anyone deserves to get a look at a big contract, it’s him.” The Bengals have yet to make an official announcement about Rayner’s addition, but he has signed his deal.Source: National Football Post This article is also featured on GridironFans . How many times [...]

It tore the center out of New Orleans, and left people devastated.Friends, families, pets, memories, valuables, and lives were lost in those tragic waters. The only reason we over look players like Montador is because of the outstanding performances by players such as Tyler Myers, Tim Connolly, heck even Patrick Kaleta has been doing a [...]

The sector won’t be able to repeat the trick in 2002: it is being disbanded because, with just eight companies, it is now regarded as too small.Two speciality finance companies were particular winners this year. Man Group entered the FTSE 100 in September having shed its sugar trading business in the mid-Nineties to focus [...]

We want people to disperse peacefully, with the warm feeling that they’ve had a bloody good evening. We’re not trying to encourage a culture of getting as much beer down your neck as possible.”. After months of argument about its demise, the Millennium Dome was star of the show once more last night as [...]

I know a lot of people who obsess about what they eat just so they can go off and eat three chocolate bars. Since I started the detox a couple of years ago, I don’t count calories, I don’t go to the gym and I don’t weigh myself I just go by how my [...]

Driven forward by the former European Commission president Jacques Delors, the former French president Francois Mitterrand and the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the euro is a rare example of the triumph of political mind over matter.Its architects know there are dangers in linking currencies and in a “one-size-fits-all” interest rate policy and that [...]

but abandoned plans after Associated announced its railway station distribution deal.Added grist to the rumour mill came from those with longer memories. They pointed to Robert Maxwell’s attempt to take on the Evening Standard back in the Eighties with the launch of the ill-fated London Daily News. This cost Maxwell some £50m when Associated [...]

If laid end to end, the 14.25 billion euro notes would stretch a million miles, or to the Moon and back twice. For eight years, Rudolph Giuliani played father to the eight million people who live in New York City. He infuriated them, soothed them, scolded them, sheltered them from crime and, when terrible [...]

She asked whether I’d been following the debate in the US media about torture, which has hardly been reported in this country. I have and it’s jaw-dropping stuff: a Newsweek columnist recently reflected that “in this autumn of anger, even a liberal can find his thoughts turning to .. torture”. I have to say [...]

I suppose I should be pleased by the ubiquity of the red, white and blue banner. Flags fly from pizza shops, porches, car antennae.Those whose knowledge comes from the idiot box will believe America to be the sum of Friends and Madeleine Albright and the preppies of the Family Bush, and they will hate [...]