'But I've never read Gerard Manley Hopkins' Klinke says

'But I've never read Gerard Manley Hopkins,' Klinke says.'That's no problem,' says Susan McKeon, who invited him. And when it comes to haggling for fresh subsidies, the Greeks are hardly the main culprits. He helped to set up a small laboratory in 1926, and two years later was given a spacious brick building confiscated from an American business to establish the Brain Institute.Lenin's brain was chopped into four parts and each of these sliced into 7,500 sections. But there were plenty of the top-of-the-range American and Japanese-made four-wheel- drive vehicles with tinted windows which are favoured by the small but powerful elite (Haiti's pot-holed roads make BMWs and Mercedes impractical) The rich had no trouble finding petrol. It defines the principal interest of the United States as the spread of democracy, to be pursued multilaterally where possible but alone where necessary. A host of smaller property developers or companies which set up subsidiaries to speculate in property are being liquidated across the country as the banks finally admit that the loans they have made will never be recoverable.To cover this, the banks have been selling off equities they have been holding on their own books, and this has led to another problem - a game of diminishing returns.The more stocks the banks sell, the more the market falls, lowering the value of their remaining shareholdings and depressing the entire market at the same time.The government has been doing little of late to support the stock market, but one area where it is still committed to intervention is the labour market.

He is going to demand what he has always asked for: total Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon, according to UN Security Council resolutions 242, 338 and 425.Mr Clinton will seek full normalisation of relations between Israel and Syria, and the extinction of 'subversive' organisations (for which read Hizbollah and any other armed groups opposed to Israel).Mr Assad may well agree to the resumption of Syrian and Lebanese participation in the multilateral peace talks. Weight- training, often after she has played a match, is another innovation, something Graf refused to contemplate until her trainer, Helmut Muller, assured her that she would not become muscle-bound. The world No 1 also has a new racket, having switched to Wilson from Dunlop But the key is that she is finally free of pain. Dr Martin McKee, a senior lecturer in public health medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was apoplectic. His upbringing was strange and far from comfortable, and has provided him with great drive: drive that at 59 is forcing him to take the hardest job in the City.Rowland's paternal grandfather was a successful engineer from north Wales, who in the late 1920s had seen his son go through Cambridge and on to read for the Bar.

HOTEL occupancies are at a 10- year low and bankruptcies are at a post-war high But it is not only the receivers who are benefiting. Didier Camberabero is no longer required by France but he can still kick the ball further and more accurately than any other Frenchman.True, he missed a couple of penalties from the half-way line - just - but otherwise he was immaculate.He kicked two penalties to Theo van Rensburg's three for South Africa but, more significantly, he created the 12th-minute try with which Languedoc took the lead. SINCE Linford Christie turned 30 in 1990, his every achievement has been accompanied by an insistent query: when are you going to retire? The answer has varied. This is a five-week rehearsal, which is just as well, as she is a slow learner. It is estimated that nearly pounds 300m worth of Guinness shares were secretly purchased by supporters during the course of the bid.A large proportion of this support was achieved by offering participants illegal indemnities against loss and 'success fees'. In England, he is expected to be involved in every aspect of the club from wiping the juniors' noses to buying the directors a drink. 'Some of us are saying he should go,' said one pro-Maastricht MP.

Mr Major sent a copy of the letter to Michael Green, chairman both of ITN and of Carlton, one of the ITV companies that supports moving the news to an earlier hour. 'I am particularly concerned that one of the strengths of the ITV network, the provision of authoritative news programming, may be seriously impaired if the main evening news is not a central part of the schedule,' Mr Major wrote. The Ashes may still be an improbable objective, but just when the TCCB may have been considering charging England admission money - along with the rest of the spectators - there is something resembling a contest taking place at last. England have been such a distant speck in Australia's rear view mirror that their first-innings total of 321 offered dangerous delusions of adequacy, and Australia's batsmen were threatening to put it into perspective on Trent Bridge's near-blameless pitch yesterday afternoon.When Australia were crusing at 197 for 2 midway through the final session, England's four bowlers looked as though they would require the services of a forklift truck to get them out of the bath by the time Australia had finished filling their boots. If proved, the allegation could open the way for legal action against the former council leader, Dame Shirley Porter, and nine other councillors and officials in an attempt to recover the pounds 21.25m the District Auditor estimates was lost by the policy. John Magill, the auditor, accused the council in his report this week of gerrymandering votes by offering homes for sale to Tory supporters instead of renting them to the homeless, which he called disgraceful.In the report, Mr Magill said a former senior member of the council's management team interviewed by him had, 'at the time and in his dealings with me, been economical with the truth and has sought to deceive me (and leading counsel instructed on behalf of the council) as to the status of certain documents'.He added that Jeremy Sullivan, QC, the barrister retained by the council to give his opinion on the legality of the 'designated sales' policy, did not see a copy of the final report to the housing committee which approved the idea. According to the information, the Japanese had adapted lorries to run on railways or roads. 'If Linford goes, I'll definitely be going for it,' he said with a grin.Jackson's achievement makes him fit for comparison with the only other athlete who has combined excellence in sprints and sprint-hurdles at the highest level, Harrison Dillard, Olympic champion at 100m and 110m hurdles in 1948 and 1952 respectively.Jackson, who will seek an Olympic title two years from now in Atlanta, sees his present pre-eminence as part of a progression.