| Keegan - I was best candidate
Meanwhile, Keegan has confirmed he is yet to speak to fans' favourite Alan Shearer about joining the club's coaching staff. "I haven't spoken to him yet to be honest. The right answer is that I've concentrated fully on the match Saturday," he added. "If there's a role that Alan wants then I think there's a job here for him. I'll definitely talk to him." Newcastle were challenging for the Premier League title the last time Keegan was in charge and he sees no reason why they cannot break into the top four this time around. "I said to (owner) Mike Ashley 'What do you want to do?' and he said 'I want to win something'. "That might sound like a tough challenge, but it is possible to win something here.
Jackson expects strong market expansion this year
Yet, at the start of each year, Jackson, a chartered accountant, market analyst and publisher, pushes his head out, prognosticating not only on the movement in the market indices, but the likely trends in individual stocks. Indeed, he was at it again last week, at his annual investment seminar, projecting that the market, whose main Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Index closed last year at 106,968.06, up 6.75 per cent, will gain at least 50 per cent in 2008. "I would hazard a guess, based on the technical information, that the market is going to break the all-time high it reached in 2005," Jackson said. In fact, following a two-thirds rise in 2004, when the JSE index ended at 112,655.51, the market reached a peak in April of the following year, with the index topping 119,179 points.
Lawrence R. Velvel: Halberstam And History
It is often remarked that Korea is a war about which most of us know little or nothing. It is called a black hole by the late David Halberstam in his recent book about it, The Coldest Winter. I personally knew very little about it before reading Halberstam’s book: I was not yet eleven when it started, so, unlike Viet Nam, which was a focus because it took place in my 20s, Korea did not stick in my mind. Halberstam himself knew little about Korea, he says, before he set out to research and write his book about a war which began when he was 16, but which came to interest him because of talks he had about it in Viet Nam in the early 1960s with a colonel who had fought in Korea. .
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