Abderrahmane Sissako's story of the fight against fundamentalism in his native Mali had been expected to pick up a prize or two last Saturday.
If their claims weren't self-serving guff, they might have been expected to pick up a hint of what was about to hit the World Trade Centre.
CNN, citing a law enforcement official, reported that the actor was last seen alive at 8pm on Saturday and had been expected to pick up his children on Sunday but failed to show up.
The data show that ethnic groups whose ancestors would have been expected to pick ploughs based on climatic conditions have sharply differentiated economic roles for the sexes even today.
Russia had been expected to pick partners from among the world's big energy companies, but instead it let Gazprom, its energy giant, go it alone.Russia has claimed half the Arctic Ocean, including the North Pole, as its territory.
I am not sure that Chris McGreal can have been expected to pick up the difference between the alleged 100,000 dead in the camps, as he wrote in his original news article, and the 100,000 dead in the camps and the villages described on the book cover.
