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Profile: The iconoclast at IBM: Lou Gerstner enacted unprecedented cuts at the giant computer firm last week, but he will need to do more than wield the axe to revive it. Rupert Cornwell reports00:02
City File: Hartstone handbagged by consultants00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A monster turned inside out: The misbegotten son - A Serial Killer and His Victims: The True Story of Arthur J Shawcross by Jack Olsen, Headline pounds 19.9900:02
Football: A Den fit for modern Millwall: Guy Hodgson reports on the impressive home built to house London's Lions00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Be all and end all: Beckett's dying words by Christopher Ricks OUP pounds 17.5000:02
Public Services Management: Not-so-tender trap of TUPE: Liza Donaldson reports on problems with the Acquired Rights Directive and public service contracts00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Surrender values are lost in a maze: A couple's decision to cash in a savings policy left them disappointed with the result. Christine Stopp reports00:02
Cricket: Glamorgan have to make way for the Boon show00:02
Motoring: Auto Biography: The Renault Safrane in 0-60 seconds00:02
Muslim hold-up on union package00:02
City: System failure00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best exhibitions00:02
Letter: Police help for a raped prostitute00:02
Prince Philip in Cowes crash00:02
Confessions of a Tory canvasser: Hester Lacey goes on the stump in Christchurch and sees true-blue grit yield to intimations of mortification00:02
Letter: Where Karyn's money will go00:02
The lean at Pisa is a little less00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In defence of America's soul: Sailor song by Ken Kesey: Black Swan pounds 6.9900:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Lost in lingerie land: The fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien by Oscar Hijuelos00:02
Retoucher of Kremlin class00:02
City File: Modest expectations for BP00:02
Racing: Carson makes it 3,500 on Signet00:02
Letter: The benefits of community care00:02
City: The day Pearson would like to forget00:02
Software sermons and hymns for the quicker vicar00:02
Sentencing U-turns baffle courts00:02
The Baganda of Uganda have their new Kabaka00:02
Roux firm in at Resort Hotels00:02
The Sunday Preview: Exploiting the free movement of labour00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ninth circle of hell: Black hands of Beijing by George Black and Robin Munro, Wiley pounds 15.99: a single tear by Wu Ningkun and Li Yikai, Hodder pounds 18.9900:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Partnerships: When the side breaks up: Ian Hunter says unravelling corporate relations can be complex00:02
MPs' pay free to soar under new review rules00:02
'GBH' drug is the new dance hit00:02
MPs' pay free to soar under new review rules00:02
Lebanese hit by deadly dollars: The week-long bombardment of southern Lebanon is whipping up a fresh hatred - of America. Robert Fisk in Tyre on the enemies of Hizbollah00:02
Blood versus love in US custody battles: Jessica DeBoer returns to parents: Courts must decide whether the rights of biological parents should come before the happiness of their children. David Usborne reports00:02
Notebook00:02
Sailing: Conner makes up lost ground00:02
Women taught how to climb ladder00:02
Virtual reality takes fund managers into cyberspace00:02
Many homes make up the millionaire's tax shelter00:02
Deputies meet00:02
Cricket: Surrey survive an ordeal by spin00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A little matter of stature: The dork of cork by Chet Raymo Bloomsbury pounds 14.9900:02
Triad charges00:02
The Sunday Preview: Dance00:02
Letter: Bosnian Muslims are not guilty of mass brutality against civilians00:02
How Lord Denning identified the duchess's headless man00:02
Neo-Nazis barred00:02
Letter: A serious problem clouded by terms of endearment00:02
Travel: Into post-Neolithic Nepal: David Nicholson-Lord observes - and, hopefully, helps to protect - an ancient way of life in the Himalayas00:02
Stab victim hunt00:02
Bunhill: Tax ideas00:02
Letter: Seek Matthew and ye shall find00:02
Shares: Join in the continental comeback00:02
Road test shows gaps in plastic: Holidaymakers may be taking a risk by relying on credit and debit cards. Elizabeth Heathcote reports00:02
Bosnians torn apart by peace plans00:02
Design: Teamwork lifts Boeing towards 777th heaven: Client involvement ensures new model is made to order00:02
Surviving the jargon00:02
Staff help to tie up the benefit package: Changes in company perks have forced firms to find a fresh approach to remuneration. Brian Friedman reports00:02
Letter00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
A false impression of majesty: Richard Tomlinson on Buckingham Palace which opens its doors to the public next Saturday00:02
Equestrianism: Britain set for close finish00:02
Sri Lanka's uphill task00:02
Rates head for 30-year low: Heavy selling of European currencies makes sweeping interest cuts inevitable00:02
Property: The leading lights of studio London: The splendid homes built for late-Victorian artists offer unparalleled light and space. Chris Partridge reports00:02
City: Overheated00:02
Deal accepted by Babangida00:02
Bombs will not push angry Italians to anarchy00:02
Nicaraguan bomb plot thickens as the killer is named: Isabel Hilton meets a survivor of the jungle blast - still seeking the truth nine years on00:02
Bonus cuts questioned00:02
Letter: The benefits of community care00:02
TELEVISION / The strange case of the vacant chair: Inspector Morse, the nation's No 1 crime-fighter, has gone to the great police station in the sky. But who will replace him? James Rampton joins in the hunt for a serial thriller00:02
Privatisation 'fiasco' threatens skill centres00:02
Lebanese hit by deadly dollars: The week-long bombardment of southern Lebanon is whipping up a fresh hatred - of America. Robert Fisk in Tyre on the enemies of Hizbollah00:02
Cricket: man in the Middle: Easing into Kent's future00:02
Howard plans clampdown on prisoner perks00:02
Letter: Is your reporter safe driving by himself?00:02
Opinions: Would Fergie have made a good UN ambassador?00:02
Mergers: Still like a Virgin at Thorn EMI: The record company's free-wheeling ethos has survived and thrived. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Athletics: Bullock stakes relay claim00:02
Letter: A serious problem clouded by terms of endearment00:02
Clinton presses for air-strike deal to save Sarajevo00:02
Barclays shareholder fury over lack of change at top00:02
Fishing Lines: No lack of news to read00:02
King Baudouin of the Belgians dies on holiday00:02
Sport in Short: Motor Racing00:02
Motorcycling: Schwantz breaks record to take pole00:02
Bunhill: Board size00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Real Life: 'I'm not a complete man; I'm cracking up': Impotence causes misery and sends many sufferers on a desperate, costly search for a cure. Callum Murray reports00:02
Football: Keane off target as Benfica spoil the party00:02
Chess00:02
City File: Sheffield Insulators Group00:02
Athletics: Backley doubt, Black is out00:02
Clarke aims at mortgage tax relief00:02
THEATRE / Inside track on a family drama00:02
Child support payment joins death and taxes: One father says the CSA left him pounds 14 a week for food and clothing00:02
Letter00:02
Golf: Spaniards miss tour00:02
US budget pact00:02
Cricket: Hampshire turn ahead00:02
Food & Drink: Cheese with their porridge: Fine Italian mozzarella is about to be produced in Kent - by British prisoners. Kathryn McWhirter reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Street-walking woman: Mary Magdalen by Susan Haskins, HarperCollins pounds 2500:02
Cricket: Russell in fiery form00:02
Israel halts bombing but warns Hizbollah00:02
Management: Give 'em an inch and gain by miles: Allowing staff greater freedom transformed the fortunes of Semco00:02
You must let me help, I'm famous: Helen Fielding questions the real motives of stars who want to be seen with the starving00:02
Leading Article: It's Europe or bust00:02
Passengers sue00:02
Cricket: This is the way to do it, chaps: Just because England's men can't win at cricket doesn't mean it's all doom and gloom. Simon Hughes sees our heroines in action00:02
The Sunday Preview: The five best plays00:02
Political Commentary: But which bastards are on your side?00:02
Deaths00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Bunhill: GM safety belt00:02
'A hero's welcome' awaits Demjanjuk in Ukraine00:02
How they're losing the modern battle of Hastings: Esther Oxford contrasts the plight of a run-down English resort with its counterpart 40 miles across the Channel00:02
Letter00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / We know it's his 150th, but let's not get too excited00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Israel holds its fire as Arabs leave guerrillas in the cold00:02
Management: Important to take in the whole picture00:02
The Sunday Preview: Opera & Concerts00:02
Motor Racing: Andretti record00:02
Weight problem: Robert De Niro will be 50 on 17 August. He is one of the great screen actors of the age, established forever by Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter. So why hasn't he done anything that good for a decade or more?00:02
Your Money: Buyer beware of the agents00:02
Lloyd's ruling00:02
Citizen cane: Wealth and the sweet life are hanging heavy on rum baron Luis del Campo Bacardi, left, stirring concern in the family. Jason Nisse looks at dynastic strains in a proud company00:02
Letter: Is your reporter safe driving by himself?00:02
Fashion: A summer palette00:02
The agreeable world of Wallace Arnold: Just William and myself00:02
Cricket: Mushtaq leads the spree00:02
Scargill: plot victim or 'brat'?00:02
Rebel Tories threaten Major a 'guerrilla war'00:02
Fast food00:02
Seven-year wait for No 2 on war crime list00:02
Cycling: Rivals unseat record holders00:02
Letter00:02
Germany slays the ERM: Franc falls through floor as Bundesbank puts its own interests ahead of Europe's monetary ideal00:02
Books: Muscovy bucks: The free-enterprise Moscow literary scene is in a shambles: Western pulp is devoured while serious writers struggle and pirates raid unchecked. Anne Chisholm reports00:02
Letter: How Wales saw the start of the swinging Sixties00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
Euromoney collapse hangs on knife-edge: Andrew Marshall and Julian Nundy look at the implications of Europe's currency crisis and the deep anger it has stirred00:02
City File: Merged benefit00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Real Life: What makes teenage girls SCREAM?: Allison Pearson looks at Take That and sees David] Donny] and Frankie]00:02
Swimming: Hardcastle faces long haul back: Britain's women will look to an unlikely figure at this week's European swimming championships. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
HP check for used cars00:02
The Sunday Preview: Art00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
Letter: How Wales saw the start of the swinging Sixties00:02
The trouble with Nafta00:02
ROCK / Give and Take as teeny hearts throb again00:02
DANCE / Good God, but an even better devil00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The art of losing: Other People: Diaries 1963-66 by Frances Partridge, HarperCollins pounds 1800:02
Executive at VW to face state prosecutor00:02
Travel: Isle of Mists yields its secrets00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Bunhill: Daylight hold-up pays off for BT00:02
Q & A: When Vicarage Road was the place to go . . . . . and Tranmere Rovers' scouse home guard00:02
Teenager in care feared drowned after day trip00:02
Student death hunt00:02
Rugby Union: S Africa beat champions00:02
Athletics: Stage set for Christie-Lewis 200:02
Letter: Heath also swerved00:02
Vestey sell-off00:02
The Sunday Preview: Jazz00:02
City File: Motoring on00:02
'Man of the people' starts at Nationwide00:02
Rome receives a right-wing message from the anti-state: The bomb sites are heavy with symbols for the eternal city. War is being declared on Italy's identity - Church, state, culture00:02
Then & now00:02
Inside story: Why did he bother?: Last week this man stood for Labour in the Christchurch by-election00:02
Rewriting the book on leases: The process of negotiation from scratch is reduced to a debate over details00:02
Letter: On laughter and forgetting00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Cricket: Business as usual00:02
Letter00:02
Maxwell charges hang over Oyston adviser00:02
Cricket: The long hard struggle for money and recognition: Rob Steen on the odds against which the England women's team has fought to reach today's World Cup final00:02
Athletics: Cuba's master of high achievement: Javier Sotomayor broke his own world high jump record last week. Hugh Jones reports00:02
Paperbacks00:02
TELEVISION / Three men and a vote00:02
Pentos chief hits at 'poisonous' research note00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
The Sunday Preview: Rock00:02
Trains collide00:02
Last-chance summit to save ERM00:02
Blood versus love in US custody battles: Kimberly Mays divorces parents: Courts must decide whether the rights of biological parents should come before the happiness of their children. David Usborne reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Food for thought in France: Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt Univ of California Press pounds 2000:02
When the stardust finally settled: Rupert Murdoch's coup in snatching Hong Kong's satellite TV station from00:02
Profile: Peace through terror: Yitzhak Rabin00:02
BR's sell-off plans mystify islanders00:02
My biggest mistake00:02
Pension field is stretched out00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Last companion of a lost soul: Spoken in darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death by Ann Imbrie, Bloomsbury pounds 16.9900:02
Saying of the week00:02
White South Africans greet 'black threat' gun in hand00:02
This is your dull and sanitised life00:02
Letter: Banking on dignity amid Bangladeshi disaster00:02
Cricket: Steady gain for Curtis00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No fools like the old: The laughing academy by Shena Mackay, Heinemann pounds 13.9900:02
The Broader Picture: The plundering of the temple00:02
Cricket: Atherton: an Oxbridge over troubled waters?: England's new captain is the brainiest since Brearley. But will it help? Tim de Lisle reports00:02
Index00:02
On losing a car and a girlfriend00:02
L-reg sales00:02
Cricket: Don't bet on a Gower return: Mike Atherton may bide his time before starting to play his selectorial shots. Glenn Moore reports00:02
Bunhill: French fridges00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
CINEMA / Pumping irony is not enough: Is the ferociously self-improving Schwarzenegger working out with post-modernism?00:02
Accountants shiver as cover slips away: A legal onslaught is scaring off insurers. David Hellier and Roger Trapp report00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter on Budgen00:02
Chess success00:02
18 dead in air crash00:02
A-Z of treats: Key lime pie00:02
Football: Spurs deny Gazza a final fling00:02
'Spy ring' cracked00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Leading Article: Out of tune at Ten00:02
Show People: Sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roles: Ian Dury00:02
Economics: How Europe was undone by fixed rates00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Bridge00:02
Cricket: Hooper in command00:02
City File: Barclays not the only bank searching for a chief executive00:02
Common complaints: Bird fancier's lung00:02
How we met: John Peters and John Nichol00:02
Mother to sue GP over death of son00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Doing away with Dad: Murder in the heart by Alexandra Artley; Hamish Hamilton pounds 14.99