The rumour is that the committee chair, John Whittingdale, would really like to get this stage over with, but that other committee members have locked their jaws onto the issue and simply refuse to let go.

BBC: Draft dodging

They assert that Mr Benhamou simply does not want to let go of one of the most successful technology products around.

ECONOMIST: 3Com

For now, Gracias is simply trying to make his microgrippers let go.

FORBES: Breakthroughs

Stuart Broad improved in leaps and bounds, Graeme Swann produced the best spell of off spin bowling by any Englishman for years in the second innings here and there are signs that being dropped might have got Monty Panesar to accept that he needs to do more than simply let the ball go in the same way time after time.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

"People are going to be more cautious about simply waking up on a Friday morning and saying, let's go to Florida for the weekend, because fares are going to be much higher, " said travel agent Fred Boyer.

CNN: Cheap airline woes weigh on travelers

But he adds that the prize can also be seen as "an exhortation not to let this huge project of genius which is the European Union go to the dogs simply because of national selfishness and short-sightedness".

BBC: EU's Nobel Peace Prize: Europe's press has mixed response

And they said, well, we can't let that information go out simply - in order to satisfy these three people.

NPR: Invoking the State Secrets Privilege

Falco is simply wonderful as a woman rediscovering who she is, trying to let go and yet also reconnect with her daughter.

WSJ: Review: Edie Falco shines in touching 'The Madrid'

"The decision of what to make has never come from a point of 'gee, let's go break a taboo' - it comes simply from what I need to do with my life, what will make my life a rich and interesting journey, " he says.

BBC: Baz's Broadway opera