Napping cops have inspired an addition to the workplace lexicon, the term "cooping".
The ‘Baywatch’ and ‘Knight Rider’ star talks frankly about how he has come to terms with the semi-ironic fame he achieved in the past decade.
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/ 19 November 2010
Nadine Gordimer speaks to Emma Brockes
about the urge to write, what will happen
when Mandela dies, and being a white African.
Marilynne Robinson, who has just won the Orange Prize, shuns big clichéd adventures and chooses to focus on the small, quiet dramas.
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/ 16 November 2004
I visit Timothy Chan on the day China’s rich list is published and he, a baby-faced 31-year-old, appears at number two. He is chairperson of Shanda Entertainment, a computer games manufacturer based in Shanghai’s Pudong district. To the mortification of his parents, Chan is worth $1,05-billion. His idol is Bill Gates, whom he admires for his work ethic and abstinent lifestyle.
Carmen bin Ladin and her daughters, Wafah, Najia and Noor, are the only Bin Ladins in the Western world to be listed in the telephone book. They live in Switzerland, where Carmen grew up and where she fled 20 years ago from her marriage to Osama’s older brother, Yeslam bin Laden. As a sister-in-law of the world’s most notorious terrorist, Bin Ladin gained a unique insight into the inner workings of the fabulously wealthy Saudi clan.
With a beneficent wave of his hand, George Lucas declines to make a fuss.
His Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr Ripley is an arrogant playboy, but in real life Jude Law is just a highly confident movie star – with an Oscar nomination. He talks to Emma Brockes.