'The sort of money that was up for grabs was a very strong temptation. 'We have a President who is trying to do something and we haven't really seen that for the past 12 years.'Much of the President's work schedule is more or less public - the endless meetings with members of Congress to consider his economic plan, the sessions with foreign leaders and the almost weekly campaign trips beyond Washington to sell his deficit-cutting programme to the voters.More subtly, we are beginning to glimpse a President who, while willing to delegate, rarely is able to let an important decision go by without making some personal contribution. At the mercy of pimps, clients and the law, they could do with some civilised reforms In the austere surroundings of Marylebone magistrates' court, Joanne Shepherd and Samantha Wilson, arrested the previous evening, fidget on the hard public benches, waiting for their cases to be called. It's a razor's edge.' Asked what further action could have been taken to control Mrs Boyes's pain, he said: 'Dr Cox had the option between walking away and doing what he did.'David Blake, professor of rheumatology at the Royal London Hospital, told the court that Dr Cox, who he said had an 'exceptional reputation' in his field, had faced 'a terrible dilemma' because, most unusually, the heroin was not working and there was no stronger painkiller.'In these extreme circumstances, you could feel sympathy for a doctor who walked away,' he said.Asked what Dr Cox could have done, Professor Blake replied: 'One of his options was to do nothing more than give her a cuddle, but the consequence of that would have been to drop her blood pressure so low that she would have died within seconds.'Professor Blake said that Mrs Boyes had been suffering from the worst case of rheumatoid arthritis of which he had heard. 'He is on a high at the moment,' Mick McGiven, the Ipswich team manager, said.Wimbledon kept battering away and, even if their direct style is not a joy to behold they were worth an equaliser.

'Gorbachev's to blame.'But in one small section, a few workers are producing horse-drawn mowing machines of the kind last turned out in 1913. They are used to 'X-ray' welds in pipes and other steel vessels to check that they do not contain hidden flaws.Mr Neilson became an industrial radiographer in 1974. His eight penalty goals against Canada last autumn equalled the world record, and he has gone one better in a club match for Pontypridd against Pontypool.For all that, Jenkins is not a flamboyant character as some earlier place-kickers were. We were shocked to find Sinn Fein voters (of whom there are 10,000 in Derry) who were humans, not bombers. Many months ago Canon Frayling wrote in your columns of the need for repentance. I WALKED into the ladies' room of a fashionable London restaurant after lunch, to find two young women leaning up against the mirror, gazing narcissistically at themselves They both looked about 19; definitely not a day over 21 One was applying luscious scarlet lipstick.

Beethoven is a key to much of Rzewski's music; his best- known work, and certainly his masterpiece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated (1975), a 55-minute set of variations for solo piano, was written as a companion piece to the Diabelli Variations. The long-awaited report by a Department of Transport working party says new runway capacity to cater for a forecast tripling passenger numbers to 170 million early next century, should be built at one of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted or Luton. But it also concludes that the extra runway will not be needed until 2010 at the earliest - five years later than previous DoT estimates - and possibly not until 2015. Highly commended: Michael Herd (Evening Standard) and Iain Macleod (Daily Telegraph) Magazine Sports Writer of the Year: Peter Bills (freelance). Mr Mollemann was one of the most outspoken free-marketeers in the German government. Although Oxford have won for the last two years, John Cadnam's record as Cambridge coach - six wins in the last nine meetings - cannot be dismissed.Oxford, meanwhile, maintained their challenge to become the first university side to win a National League place when they beat Marden Russets 1-0 in a Peroni South Premier B Division League game at the weekend.Although they trail City of Portsmouth and Gore Court, who could only draw, by a point, the Dark Blues have the luxury of a game in hand. They are guardians of the school's assets, land, buildings, endowments and investments.