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Li Heping

Evening Standard
19 August 2008

Lawyer Li and the goon squad.

"Come on," said Li Heping, "let me show you my secret police guards." We went through the gate of the pleasant residential compound where he has his apartment, and there they were, three of them, sitting on garden chairs outside the entrance to his building.

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Claus von Stauffenberg

Sunday Telegraph
15 August 2008

Claus von Stauffenberg: the true story behind the film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise.

On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target, and the following day the officer was shot. With the daring plot now being made into a film - starring Tom Cruise - Berthold von Stauffenberg, son of the would-be assassin, tells Nigel Jones how his father's 'moral sacrifice' shattered his and his family's lives...

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Helena and Clio Kennedy

Sunday Times
10 August 2008

Relative Values: Helena Kennedy Qc and her daughter, Clio.

The QC and life peer Helena Kennedy, 58, grew up in Glasgow. She was called to the bar in 1972, became a Queen’s counsel in 1991, and was made a life peer in 1997. As a barrister she specialises in human rights. She and her husband, the consultant surgeon Iain Hutchison, 59, have two children: Clio, 21, and Roland, 19. Helena has a son, Kier, 25, by the actor Roger Mitchell. She lives in Hampstead, north London. Clio Kennedy Hutchison attended the international sixth-form Atlantic College in Wales and is now studying anthropology at Durham University.

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Richard Bezant

Mail on Sunday
10 August 2008

'Domineering' Rausing left me broke, reveals former estate manager to Tetra Pak heir

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Gary Hume

Financial Times
28 June 2008

'Eloquent silence'

Interview with YBA Gary Hume.

The adjective most often used to describe the paintings of Gary Hume is “dumb”. Hume prefers “mute”, but you can see why dumb has stuck. His large works of household gloss paint on aluminium sheets take as their subject matter “portraits, flora and fauna” and use bold, sharp outlines in the way that a wallpaper print or colouring book might do. Their surfaces, filled in with clashing colours (ice-cream pinks with manure greens, canary yellows with near-blacks) are so smooth and reflective that they seem to “say” nothing at all – yet it is as impossible to resist them as it is to resist roses, or branches of blossom, or cheerleaders, or Kate Moss (all of them his subjects). They are neither shocking nor remotely personal; they couldn’t be more different, in fact, from the noisy work of his peers. But despite dissimilarities with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Angus Fairhurst or Matt Collishaw, Gary Hume will forever be a Young British Artist. This is because his career was launched at the same moment as theirs, 20 years ago this month, in a student show now acknowledged to be one of the most significant exhibitions of the 20th century: Freeze. ....

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Paul McKenna

The Spectator
21 June 2008

James Delingpole meets a lifestyle guru who gets results. The general rule when writing pieces about the multimillionaire TV hypnotist, bestselling author and self-help guru Paul McKenna is to go in deeply sceptical and to come out less so. Well I’m sorry, but I can’t be doing with any of that. ‘Paul,’ I say, when I walk into his swanky west London office with the chauffeur-driven silver Bentley outside. ‘I’ve got loads and loads of problems, some major, some minor, and it’s my belief you can cure them all and change my life forever.’

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Darryn Lyons

Sunday Times Magazine
21 June 2008

A Life in the Day: Darryn Lyons. Lyons’s shots of Princess Diana holidaying with Dodi Fayed earned him the title Mr Paparazzi. He now owns the world’s largest celebrity photographic agency. Single, he lives with his dog in Kensington, London

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Sophie Marceau

Daily Telegraph
21 June 2008

Sophie Marceau: when lingerie is a deadly weapon. Sophie Marceau tells Benjamin Secher about her new role as a spy in an era that is still taboo in France

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Richard Dannatt

The Sun
5 June 2008

"THE head of the Army last night called for soldiers to get a wage rise – saying even traffic wardens earn more.

General Sir Richard Dannatt said pay for his men and women was the most important Army issue that needed to be tackled.

The Chief of the General Staff insisted more cash must be ploughed into the Armed Forces for the UK to win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – where troops risk their lives every day...."

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Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford

RadioTimes
4 June 2008

As Sir Alan Sugar's sternfaced henchmen, Margaret Mountford (56) and Nick Hewer (64) rarely crack a smile. But slowly, inadvertently, they're becoming co-stars of the show. Here, they discuss their newfound fame, the best and the worst of the candidates and what it's really like to work for their irascible boss.

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Tony Blair

Time
30 May 2008

'Tony Blair's Leap of Faith...there's more to life than money'. The former Prime Minister gives an extensive interview to Time magazine.

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Dame Vivien Duffield

Daily Telegraph
29 May 2008

'You're lucky if you have one good relationship'. Fundraiser extraordinaire Dame Vivien Duffield tells Elizabeth Grice about life after separating from her partner of 32 years, and why her latest endeavour - raising £1.25 bn for Oxford - is also her last.

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Richard Neely and Alison Dalton

A Current Affair
27 May 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Neely and Alison Dalton, the couple who spent 19 hours drifting in the shark-infested sea off Queensland, Australia, spoke to A Current Affair in their first television interview.

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Hannah Bond

Daily Mail
15 May 2008

'Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo'. Eight months have now passed since 13-year-old Hannah Bond committed suicide, but for her parents the questions continue.

On the night before she died, she came into their room, kissed her father Raymond on the cheek and cheerfully told him: "I love you, Dad."

The following day Hannah's mother Heather went to check on her daughter and found her hanging by a tie from the top rail of her bunk bed.

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Jenny Celerier and Jennifer Maguire

RadioTimes
8 May 2008

Apprentice candidates Jennifers Celerier and Maguire, victims of a double firing this week, talk about being labeled "ruthless" and "cold", respectively, and reveal the extreme symptoms of boardroom stress.

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