The fault is not confined to Arsenal alone, but everyone now knows they are easily provoked.It was a suitable commentary on Arsenal's present situation that at Yeovil last week, Graham was so delighted with a3-1 win over a non-League club, albeit one with quite a reputation for giant- killing He saw the win as a turning point. Like Sauternes, Vouvray (barely up-river from Tours) and the Coteaux du Layon (near Angers, further down the Loire) make their sweet wines when the weather permits, from grapes that have become super-sweet in two quite different ways, and often from a combination of the two. But for the media and political worlds, private lives were the unspoken issue.Rumours - none proven - circulated not only about Mr Ashdown but also about several leading Tory and Labour politicians. He was looking at reforming tax structures in a way that would have a neutral effect on government revenues.Yet Mr Dorrell refused to rule out a cut in tax relief on pension funds' dividend income.Gerald Holtham, chief economist at Lehman Brothers in London, said: 'A move to make the payment of dividends less attractive would reduce the attraction of equities to institutions, although how much share prices fell would depend on the precise change.'Sushil Wadwhani, equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, has estimated that abolishing the 20 per cent tax credit on dividends could take nearly 15 per cent off share prices.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) makes loans to better-off developing countries at rates of interest close to commercial rates, while the International Development Association (IDA) lends at minimal rates to the poorest countries. Or you can throw every last ounce of programming effort into blowing the socks off the poor gamester by pouring monsters, traps and bolts of lightning at his pixilated alter ego. The former emphasised his liking for this track when giving Peter Scudamore his final success - Richard Dunwoody has been advised of Granville Again's quirks by Pipe's former stable jockey before taking over for the first time today - but may lack the speed to win over a trip that is short of his best No such problems for King Credo (2.40) though. The story of how it recovered to become the 35th biggest company in Europe and its most successful car maker is an object lesson in the benefits of shock treatment. BMW started life in Munich in 1917 as an aero-engine maker. Another model was commissioned, an unarmed one that merely throws a punch and shouts 'Big mistake]'. Film stars are notorious for developing a social conscience only after they become rich, but when the biggest box office draw in history - an action man who has slaughtered some 275 fictional enemies - has a change of heart, we may wonder what is going on The answer is: a trend. We value the opportunity to be able to present the truth.'He said that the BPI hoped that the select committee's inquiry 'will lay to rest the myth that CDs are too expensive.

The temptation, having rolled thus far into the debatable lands, is to look at the map, spot the names you recognise - Hawick and Jedburgh and, way up there at the end of the line, Berwick - and then head on. Doesn't that look like a very large tail wagging a very small dog?. It has, it claims, 1.73 million of them and is moving towards 'the assimilation of the whole society to intelligentsia'. And she shares with Aranxta Sanchez Vicario the distinction of holding two set points against the world No 1 in 1994.Pete Sampras was about to turn his thoughts to the serious business of renewing his rivalry with Jim Courier in the semi-finals when someone asked if it would take someone like him to beat Graf in her current form.'You are asking me how I would play Steffi Graf?' the Wimbledon champion responded incredulously 'I never thought I'd answer that.' The notion amused him 'I'd attack her backhand,' he said. Winners will be announced and the answers given on the Miscellany page on 8 November. 'Competitiveness is something we should be striving for in order to be able to pay high wages, to provide the social protection our society needs and to increase our standard of living.'The comments were aimed at organisations such as the CBI, which has lobbied fiercely against the high social costs being imposed on employers by EU legislation.On the political front, Mr Delors said it was understandable that at a time of recession and high unemployment countries such as Britain should pursue domestic agendas as a solution to their problems. The stockbroker Shaw & Co regards the shares as a 'speculative long-term buy', fascinated by the company's exposure to mainland China.

He said: 'Both these plays are in high-profile theatres with bookshops. 'We knew he had inherent ability, but as a racehorse he'd fallen to bits. PROPOSALS for a privacy law are published this morning - with the utmost privacy. It was said that if Wales were in need of an outside-half, Scotland a scheming inside-forward, England a wing-half or a fast bowler, it was only necessary to shout down a shaft. Meanwhile, Mrs Barhey keeps a watchful eye on all this activity and deals with a stream of questions and requests.The space topic will take in science attainment targets in the national curriculum, creative writing, maths, music and movement - Holst's Planets, naturally.Mrs Barhey is a firm believer in topics that cut across subject boundaries.'A cross-curricular approach is better because it keeps them motivated,' she said.Colin Abbott, teaching six- and seven-year-olds in year two at the other end of the school, sees the traditional versus progressive argument as irrelevant.

In both new zones, or cities, building beautifully is hardly a priority The towers of Shenzhen and Zhuhai are brutally functional. Indeed, net profits almost doubled to FFr3.7bn in the first two years of his reign. For his fourth festival, Kirshbaum succeeded last week in luring under one roof most of the world's greatest cellists - Starker, Yo Yo Ma, Zara Nelsova, Aldo Parisot, Boris Pergamenschikow, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Demenga, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Colin Carr, Steven Isserlis, Heinrich Schiff - and not just to perform, but to teach and mingle. That such leading players were willing to put in so much time (for expenses only) might suggest that cellists are a particularly generous species. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Batting M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Before tour 12 16 1 129 29 8.60 - - 2 - Tour 4 6 3 11 8* 3.66 - - 2 - Overall 16 22 4 140 29 7.77 - - 4 - Bowling Balls Runs W Ave Best 5wi 10wm SR Before tour 3381 1386 55 25.20 6-82 5 - 61.47 Tour 1013 443 16 27.68 8-75 1 - 63.31 Overall 4394 1829 71 25.76 8-75 6 - 61.88----------------------------------------------------------------- GRAEME HICK ----------------------------------------------------------------- Age: 27. It began with one of the toughest works of the early 1960s, the Fantasia No 2 on John Taverner's 'In Nomine' Then the listening got steadily easier. It's lovely now, I can love you in peace.' Now he's 6ft under, that is.Anyone who has ever been the hypotenuse in an eternal triangle will have dreamed of the opposite side meeting a premature end, but only a moral myopic would present it in this fuzzy, feelgood way. For a while, Coetzee rather coyly leaves us half-guessing the identity of this writer (who is travelling on a false passport), and it is only some time after Pavel's landlady has mentioned the story Poor Folk that Coetzee comes clean: his 'master' is Fyodor Dostoevsky.