Ian Fleming

Jamaica hails Bolt for lightning gold strikes

reuters.co.uk     Aug 21, 2008   545 related          

By Horace Helps KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding was bursting with pride, minutes after Usain "Lightning" Bolt struck Olympic double sprint gold. "Usain Bolt is a super human being. The world has never...                    

People: John Prescott; 50 Cent and Max Drummey

timesonline.co.uk     Aug 20, 2008   2 related          

Faulks’s Bond is shaken and stirred When Barbara Broccoli, producer of the Bond franchise, read Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks’s new addition to the 007 canon, she compared it to a long-lost Ian Fleming manuscript. However,...                    

"we have very little option than to raise the cash reserve ratio"

allafrica.com     Aug 20, 2008   1 related          

Below is the speech delivered by Rundheersing Bheenick, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, on the occasion of the Re-branding of First City Bank Ltd to Bank One Ltd. He raises issues pertaining to the debate surrounding the...                    

British Spies: Licensed to Be Gay

time.com     Aug 20, 2008   1 related          

Daniel Craig as James Bond in Quantum of Solace ever tires of working for the Secret Intelligence Service (all those tedious long-haul flights), its sister organization, MI5, responsible for Britain's domestic security, might...                    

Enid Blyton voted favorite author

reuters.com     Aug 19, 2008   18 related          

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Bestselling writer J.K. Rowling suffered a rare literary defeat on Tuesday when Enid Blyton was voted top of a poll to find Britain's best-loved author. In second place was "Charlie and the Chocolate...                    

Flashback: Paul Mccartney & Wings' 'live And Let Die' Peaks On The Charts

610cktb.com     Aug 18, 2008   2 related          

Flashback: Paul Mccartney & Wings' 'live And Let Die' Peaks On The Charts By: Howie Edelson It was 35 years ago this week (August 18th, 1973) that Wings'theme to the James Bond movie Live And Let Die peaked at Number Two on the...                    

Rowling third in poll of best loved writers

scotsman.com     Aug 19, 2008   1 related          

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling was today named as one of Britain's best-loved writers. A nationwide survey of readers ranked Edinburgh-based Ms Rowling the country's third most popular author after Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl....                    

Precious Points: Bye-bye Bull?

safehaven.com     Aug 18, 2008   3 related          

Metals had been relatively resilient for the past few months, but what that has ultimately served to do is to raise moving average and trendline support levels higher where they could be more decisively broken. As shown in the...                    

Bond maize maze is 'licensed to thrill'

bbc.co.uk     Aug 17, 2008   2 related          

The amazing maize maze is leaving visitors "shaken" and "stirred" An image created from thousands of maize plants is drawing crowds of people to a farm in Devon. The subject of the amazing maize maze at Bickleigh, near...                    

Fleming had a hand in shaping OSS and CIA

upi.com     Aug 15, 2008   5 related          

LONDON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- James Bond creator Ian Fleming used to claim, partly in jest, that he also helped create the CIA, but a new report indicates he probably wasn't kidding. A good decade before Agent 007 took on his first...