Times leader comp
I've let you down...I forgot.Here's
a) “Die, my dear doctor?” Palmerston asked on his deathbed. “That's the last thing I shall do.” Very shortly afterwards he did. At home, in his bed. In the 19th century most people did. Today most of us say that we, too, wish to die in our own beds, in familiar surroundings, warmed by the love of our families and by our memories.
b) A melancholy line was drawn under Israel's 2006 war with Lebanon yesterday when two black coffins were unloaded at a United Nations base on the Israeli-Lebanese border and the bodies of two kidnapped Israeli soldiers were returned to their homeland. In exchange for the remains of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, army reservists whose seizure by Hezbollah sparked the 34-day conflict in Lebanon, Israel released a terrorist serving a life sentence for the deaths of four Israelis as well as four other Lebanese prisoners.
c)The future doesn't look red for phone boxes, or even rosy. It looks black. BT has plans to remove 9,000 of them that have long since stopped making money. But the problem is not that people hardly use them any more for making phone calls. It is that neither BT nor its customers have bothered to think outside the box and reimagine them as strategically located, multi-purpose, public interest booths.
Good grief. Surely (c)?
Labels: The Times
posted by Matthew @ 7/16/2008 10:47:00 PM
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