With Arafat and his galvanising effect gone for ever, the evolving Palestinian leadership would be less able and probably less inclined to confront Hamas head-on.

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Mr Hytner decided that the cinema audience must feel that it is in a theatre watching a performance that is ephemeral, happening now, and then gone for ever.

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He has less scope to cut his pace and learn new tricks, and if Lawson is right and he has developed a technical flaw due to his injury, even his relentless accuracy may have gone for ever.

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In fact, more nuclear waste has gone into WIPP than was ever destined for that other famous nuclear repository, Yucca Mountain.

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But no, the obesity panic has gone so far that no school child can ever be allowed a second plate of anything for any reason: not even a missed breakfast.

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For the best what? he asks, but his son is gone, if he was ever there in the first place.

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Hoggard has only ever played domestic cricket for Yorkshire, making his county debut in 1996, and has gone on to take 668 wickets in 195 first-class matches.

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