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Equestrianism: Bluebird grounded as Whitaker proves that timing is the essence of victory00:02
Protest vote promotes a poser: Zhirinovsky's poll success owes more to Russian disenchantment with reform than to his own wild promises. The West's hidden fears00:02
Boxing: Hill reaches new heights00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / More agony than ecstasy: Musician Of The Year00:02
In Today's Other Newspapers00:02
Captain Moonlight: In a tizz here and now00:02
A hard lesson in credit management and survival00:02
Redhead in hospital00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A-Z of Treats: Tiramisu00:02
Computing: Action on chip bandits00:02
Is Spielberg still on the blacklist?: 'Schindler's List' is being hailed the year's best picture, but a first Oscar for its director is as elusive as ever00:02
Twin-track scheme for schools: Proposal could herald return of selection00:02
Ingenious but legal - the advisers on tax avoidance00:02
BOOKS / The Crossing Of Herald Montjoy: A Short Story00:02
Football Round-up: Brady's blank start00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Soft hearts, hard news: TV Programme Of The Year00:02
RADIO / Harmful side-effects of the milk of human kindness00:02
Rear Window: Ghost of Hitler stalks Russia's parliament: Dictator in the wings00:02
Christmas Shopping: From the dream-charms of American Indians to craftwork from Egypt via a Harley-Davidson you can't ride, Rosalind Russell seeks out some novel gifts00:02
Football: Loans00:02
Seizing the moment: David McKittrick, Stephen Castle and Alan Murdoch on how the Anglo-Irish accord came about, and its hopes of success00:02
ETCETERA / Quiz of the Year: Answers00:02
Surfing: How and Why: Britain's Martin Potter has rejoined the elite world of surfing00:02
Rugby Union: Coker stokes fire00:02
Protest vote promotes a poser: Zhirinovsky's poll success owes more to Russian disenchantment with reform than to his own wild promises. Mystery man00:02
Football: Transfers00:02
Almanack: McClennan will be missed00:02
Football: Goals of the day00:02
Bunhill: From high art to high finance00:02
Bunhill: Railing against Dublin00:02
Football: Spurs strike back with interest: Fowler flourishes to put Tottenham in the red but Hazard inspires a fightback that brings relief from the troubles00:02
Letter: Drink-driving00:02
Profile: Gambler on a roll: From pet food to the Irish parliament. Alan Murdoch on the rise of a 'do-it-now' politician: Albert Reynolds00:02
Flat Earth: And a Berlin bonus00:02
First-Hand: 'Our son spent Christmas in a street doorway': Tilly Day recalls when, in the season of supposed goodwill, her schizophrenic son went missing00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Good Evans - a real person: Comedian Of The Year00:02
London stores buck trend with big pre-Christmas sales00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
The rough with the smooth: A sample of sentiment as people review how they fared financially over the year00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Nothing new under the fun: Jazz Band Of The Year00:02
Ice Skating: Witt back in mood for gold: Queen of skating defies new generation to head for a winter wonderland00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: A reflection on the true meaning of Christmas00:02
Penis trial00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Wearing the crown: Holly and the ivories: Screen Actor Of The Year00:02
Labour review to cover tax00:02
Bumpy road to trade pact: Lobbyists hovered as negotiators resorted to all-night talks00:02
Hard sell goes green00:02
Lib Dems hit back in racism row00:02
Shares: Top toys turn profit into child's play00:02
Flat Earth: Two Muslim cheers00:02
QUIZ OF THE YEAR: As 1993 moves into the final lap, Rosanna de Lisle tests just how memorable its events have been. Answers can be found on page 9200:02
Letter: Italian mayoral elections make fascism respectable again00:02
Cricket: Sunshine before the storm: A relaxed approach replaces a rigorous regime as England's cricketers warm up for the forthcoming tour of the West Indies. Derek Pringle joins Atherton and Co on their pre-tour exercise in Portugal00:02
China row 'costs UK companies millions'00:02
Football: US to launch dollars 100m league: Phil Reeves in Las Vegas reports on an ambitious plan as a row clouds today's World Cup draw00:02
Profile: Poor little rich kid of tennis: Jennifer Capriati00:02
Rugby Union: Switching on to a new screen test: Chris Rea throws light on a way to boost the appeal of the Five Nations00:02
Captain Moonlight: All steamed up over Thomas the Lucrative Locomotive00:02
Bunhill: At war with lawyers00:02
Tories help firms that find ways to avoid tax00:02
BT gives discount to health service00:02
Hunt for a body politic: David Connett at the arms inquiry savours Lord Justice Scott's liking for the chase and looks at how some central personalities react00:02
Almanack: Distinction on the distaff side00:02
How to lose friends without really noticing00:02
Scottish Football: Hateley earns the nod00:02
Football: Crowds of the day00:02
A better deal for some than others: Markets have reacted enthusiastically to the Gatt breakthrough but not everyone will benefit from the tariff reductions00:02
Marketing: Putting fun back into shopping: Some off-beat formats are proving successful in attracting trendy well-heeled customers to traditional mail-order sales00:02
No improper sex please, we're the Archers00:02
Bunhill: Fight at end of the tunnel00:02
Bunhill: Supping in slendour00:02
Rugby Union: Your career .. it's behind you: Oh no, it isn't. Julie Welch sees the retired rugby player Gareth Chilcott revel in a change of scene00:02
Racing: Young Hustler secures double00:02
City File: Eurotherm radiates prosperity00:02
Rugby Union: Grayson's pay-off00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Out of mothballs, into flames: Rock Singer Of The Year00:02
Pensions permit mooted00:02
Public Services Management: Many are called but few stick it out - Council members say the job should be rewarding but more are leaving in frustration. Liza Donaldson says training could help00:02
Britain rejects first Bosnian asylum appeals00:02
VAT ruling to claw millions from Revenue00:02
FOOD & DRINK / A taste of China with northern notes: Yang Sing00:02
Leading Article: Talking to a brick wall on training00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the Week00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter on festive wines00:02
Post robbery00:02
Cadet instructors swept to death00:02
Delusions of Santa00:02
Letter: Oilseed rape keeps bees busy00:02
Bunhill: KGB get oiled up00:02
Football: Platini looks for break in the clouds: Simon O'Hagan meets the Frenchman hoping to steer his nation to better times00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Almanack: Close encounters of the unkind kind00:02
Flat Earth: Some French gall00:02
FASHION & STYLE / The Fashion Editor from Hell: An exhibition in Manhattan is celebrating the style of Diana Vreeland, who died in 1989. Kate Constable describes the woman for whom fashion was life itself00:02
Computing: Dell cuts the cost of personal touch: The American PC maker seeks an edge by centralising its European operation near Dublin00:02
What do you want for Christmas?: Nicole Swengley asked 12 experts in their field to choose their perfect gifts - money no object ..00:02
Unholy struggle for holy ground: In the week that saw the peace process falter, militant Jews and Palestinians intensified their campaign to derail the accord00:02
Rugby Union: Back pounces to settle the issue00:02
CHILDREN / Those Almighty questions: Religion is hard to explain, writes Anne Woodham, but parents cannot avoid it at Christmas00:02
Letter: Detective Constable with sexist views00:02
Labels and letters00:02
Profile: How Fat Mike became a million dollar baby: The huge bonuses handed to partners by Goldman Sachs have left the City gasping. Jason Nisse looks at a young beneficiary: Michael Sherwood00:02
Chucky films defended00:02
A neighbour rots on the 7th floor: In 1990 a man died in his flat. His body was found last week00:02
INTERIORS / Take that, Postman Pat: Children's rooms don't have to be a case of My Little Pony meets Jurassic Park. They can have style, writes Dinah Hall00:02
Football: Strachan at full strength00:02
Prisoners of an unforgiving history: Jonathan Bardon, a Dubliner in Belfast, on the past that has made a witty and generous people appear dogged and defiant00:02
Paisley's good for a laugh, but don't mock the Pope00:02
What the papers said about .. Liam Brady00:02
ART MARKET / Mitterand makes a Korea move: The French President may have opened the floodgates to a repatriation of Korean treasures, says Geraldine Norman00:02
Exchange delays00:02
TRIED & TESTED / Christmas With A Bang: As essential as mince pies or just a rip-off? We look at crackers00:02
Captain Moonlight: Written in the stars00:02
Cosmic cover-up alleged00:02
Fishing Lines: Salmon surprise and life at the shark end00:02
ETCETERA / Bumper Index00:02
Two dead, one in hiding, no to deals: Alex Renton meets a republican whose family is a target00:02
Ousted Soviet puppet claims social security00:02
How Much Does He Earn?: No 10: Noel Edmonds, television entertainer.00:02
CINEMA / All's right with Clint's World00:02
Government accused of car fumes cover-up00:02
Cricket: Crawley's giant stride00:02
Letter: City body will benefit London00:02
Motivation: Breaking old moulds through competition: Bosch has embarked on a radical programme of pay incentives00:02
Flat Earth: Plastering over the earthquake cracks00:02
Who's going for growth?00:02
Hockey: England survive Laslett's adventures00:02
Designs you can grasp: Solid models can be made rapidly from drawings00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Scottish Football: McLean thrives in the family way: James Traynor looks at the methods of the man who has revived Motherwell00:02
Letter: More to Britain than plc00:02
Economics: Courageous road to a basic income00:02
Protest vote promotes a poser: Zhirinovsky's poll success owes more to Russian disenchantment with reform than to his own wild promises. Nationalism: The trump card00:02
Sport on TV: Awards show with a personality defect00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes draws the sting00:02
Second superstore00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Walter Hayes00:02
Letter: Less to lose with mediation00:02
Skipton: no more a son of York?00:02
Rugby League: Wigan's power crushes the dream00:02
Football: Prodigal tempts Gabriel into envy00:02
Rugby Union Round-up: Newcastle end the adventure00:02
Space calling earth00:02
Database: Sport00:02
Bosnia airlift00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / The fathers of invention: Play Of The Year00:02
Is he a clown or a dictator? This time the West had better get it right00:02
Whitehall wages war on Canada geese00:02
How We Met: Irma Kurtz and Jeffrey Bernard00:02
Castle burgled00:02
Captain Moonlight: The finest cad of our times00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / One war widow's fight to the death: Radio Programme Of The Year00:02
HEALTH / Second Opinion00:02
Tinsel town eyes Europe's glitter00:02
ART MARKET / Up for Sale00:02
Taking risks for high returns: Derivative-based instruments are being targeted at private investors00:02
BOOKS / Medusa's Ankles: A Short Story00:02
Q & A: The numbers game .. and the secrets of home advantage00:02
TELEVISION / Don't try this one at home00:02
Britain devious - Adams00:02
Bunhill: Salomon Brothers' Christmas bash00:02
Opinions: How do you cure a hangover?00:02
Personal Finance: Ernie's more interesting00:02
Football: Ipswich usurp the local gentry00:02
Best and worst: Managed Pension Funds00:02
A new record for Scotland's misleading mountains - this year they claimed 54 lives: 'The freedom to climb, and die'00:02
Kurds protest00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Die Meister of the universe: Opera Of The Year00:02
On excellence: Business needs trust in its future00:02
THEATRE / Smile, and smile, and be a villain00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / The season to be wary00:02
Football: Southport on track to turn the tables: Guy Hodgson sees two non-League clubs in a battle for a place in the top flight00:02
Medway writ for KPMG00:02
Big Jack and the Beanstalk: A pantomime in three acts by Stan Hey00:02
Badminton: No sweet swansong for Clark and Pontin00:02
Titanium gets on its bike as peace prevails00:02
Electronic guard dog a howling success00:02
Almanack: Loose moose may threaten Olympics00:02
MOTORING / Auto Biography: The Citroen Xantia 1.9 TD SX in 0-60 seconds00:02
Comment: That was the year that was00:02
City on the road back from a high-rise hell: America keeps an eye on the toppling towers of poverty00:02
Letter: Yes, you with the yellow spots00:02
Real Life: The cult of the cake: To devotees, they are sculptures and icing them is an artform. Hester Lacey discovers 'sugarcraft'00:02
Japanese budget00:02
Captain Moonlight: Christmas trees00:02
City & Business: International rescue00:02
Tiphook rescue under threat: German bank warns it may break ranks00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / To play the king, but not the tyrant: Stage Actor Of The Year00:02
ROCK / A Loaf who rises to the occasion00:02
Europe networked00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Daily Bread: Richard Dunwoody: What the jockey ate one day last week00:02
PC braves fire00:02
Hound-power00:02
Translation system00:02
Property companies lining up for market in 199400:02
The List00:02
Real Life: A girl who still has everything: Forget Sega, forget Nintendo, the biggest-selling toy this season is Barbie. Isabel Wolff reports00:02
Words: Merry00:02
'I'll sue the Met to get justice': Man dying of Aids says he was beaten up by PC00:02
Football: City's stock is in decline00:02
Bhutto charged00:02
Bunhill: If the hat fits ..00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / A whirl in the time machine: Film Of The Year00:02
As Others See It00:02
Golf: Montgomerie's hot pursuit00:02
Election 'chaotic'00:02
LWT cools on bid for YTTV: Institutional shareholders blunt the London station's defence strategy00:02
Letter: Southerners are equally sexist00:02
Alan Clark's memoirs win critics' vote00:02
Israel in informal negotiations with PLO00:02
Rugby League Preview: Riley holds the key to a capital crusade00:02
Sailing: Jury's judgement short on appeal00:02
The last gasp for India's age of steam: Drivers mourn locomotives that united a nation00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / The symbol now arriving: Building Of The Year00:02
Raising the cost of graduating00:02
Football: Wizard Waddle makes West Ham wobble00:02
Hope of rate cut fuels record run for shares00:02
Fotoball: Fashanu clears route one00:02
Letter: Apartheid still reigns00:02
Sam Wanamaker dies at 7400:02
Letter: Lift the ban00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Previous Winners00:02
Rugby Union: Ring's tricks raise the spirits00:02
GARDENING / Beautiful, useful and overblown: The Christmas crop of books for gardeners ranges from the sublimely attractive to the ridiculously florid, says Michael Leapman00:02
Cricket: Arthurton king for a day00:02
Guy's 'risks squandering pounds 133m block'00:02
TELEVISION / Long Runners No 11: The Queen's Message00:02
Letter: Street vendors are seeking trade not aid00:02
Ukraine in nuclear accord00:02
Letter: Jokes supporting status quo00:02
DANCE / Lustre in a Land of Snow00:02
An A to Z of Hell: The Bishop of Durham says it doesn't exist. But if it does, where is it and who's there? By Andrew Brown00:02
Vestey Group looks at flotation00:02
Research into noise00:02
Leading Article: Betrayed by history00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / Classic turns and high risks: Dancer Of The Year00:02
Skiing: Ortlieb makes World Cup breakthrough00:02
Football: Scott stoops00:02
LEADERS OF THE PACK / A veteran with youthful verve: Artist Of The Year00:02
City & Business: The City can't continue in splendid isolation00:02
Branson attacked over lottery plan00:02
Captain Moonlight: As easy as 1, 10, 1100:02
Letter: Southerners are equally sexist00:02
Bethlehem in Bramley00:02
TRAVEL / Christmastime for everyone: In Japan it might mean a celebration in a hotel bed. In Russia it's merrier than it used to be. Our correspondents report on how it's marked and marketed around the world