'So they don't know much about the Muslims?' says Milan, once the friend of Mirsada. Punters yesterday latched onto the notion that Dermot Weld's General Idea and Gordon Richards's General Pershing will take high rank in that race and backed both in to 6-1. For the first time the President was to be elected by universal suffrage. But no mention was made of the previous week's lynching mood.

Last June, he boasted about punching two spectators at the French Open. But when the engraver Louis de Surugue copied Santerre's copy 10 years later, he replaced the onions with a creeper, turned the anonymous maid into Sylvie, a character from the Commedia dell'arte, and captioned the image with a love poem.After Rembrandt's picture arrived in England in the 1770s, it exerted a considerable influence on English and American artists (unfortunately the gallery has not been able to get the copy by Reynolds and those of the sentimentalising American Rembrandt Peale). 'That hoary old chestnut - I've never seen a shred of evidence for it It's straightforward adipose tissue - fat, fat, fat. A MAN allegedly beaten up and framed by police helping bailiffs to evict squatters won pounds 24,500 damages yesterday. Chief among these is Jose Lezama Lima, whose great novel Paradise was for a long time regarded with suspicion for being too experimental, too pessimistic, and too difficult for mass comprehension. DEMAND for traditional Chinese medicines throughout South-east Aisa threatens the tiger and rhinoceros with extinction, an international meeting on the trade in wildlife heard yesterday, writes Nicholas Schoon.

Lorne Leader, tel: 08525 212.THE FROZEN SOUTHDavid Attenborough's television series Life in the Freezer has helped launch flotillas of ships heading for the Great White Continent, carrying inflatable boats, some even helicopters, to take adventurers ashore to look at the amazing varieties of birds, mammals and fish. She speaks with difficulty, although her memory and understanding are good.The final award was pounds 1.55m The money is coming through now 'It can never pay for what happened to Linda,' says Stephen. The Bhangramuffin or Bhangragga fusion, of which Apache Indian is currently the chief exponent, has been germinating away underground for some time. For another, Everett was a man of genuine distinction, and not an unworldly academic by any means; he was governor of Massachusetts, congressman, senator, ambassador to Britain and Secretary of State as well as a Greek scholar and a Harvard professor.Garry Wills also shows, in great detail, that both the Harvard professor's lengthy oration, and the naildriving speech by the self-educated Western president, were influenced by the same tradition and followed it closely: the tradition of Greek funeral oratory. Assistance in the bridal room, run by dress designer Tatters, is by appointment only. 'I'm sorry that the law is not stricter about this kind of offence. (First Edition) STANDARD LIFE, Europe's largest mutual life insurance company, has slashed bonuses for its 'with profits' life assurance and pension policies, sharply reducing the return to policyholders.Scott Bell, managing director, said yesterday: 'Reductions in bonuses are unwelcome.