Syrian troops were in the ultra-modern thermal electric station to the immediate south which – so the colonel said – had prevented him from using shells for fear of damaging the plant.
But not before I had been photographed beneath this tree, which (so the story goes) is a direct descendant of a tree beneath which Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once sat.
It was a bonus fluke that the Daily Mail which (so the undenied Fleet St yarn goes) set out to do a hatchet job on the family, only to learn that Neville Lawrence knew Paul Dacre.
British government bonds had their own bout of exuberance after Eddie George, Mr Greenspan's counterpart at the Bank of England, spoke of an economic slowdown this year which, so the markets reason, must mean a slowdown in rate rises.Gold fixed at $281.60 in London, an 18 1/2-year low.
Just in case, the right is already explaining away President Bush's defeat: it's all the fault of the "liberal media," particularly The New York Times, which, so the conspiracy theory goes, deliberately timed its report on the looted Al Qaqaa explosives -- a report all the more dastardly because it was true -- for the week before the election.
Brexit was, in part, a complaint not against an elected government for doing wrong, or (the undying Republican lament) for doing too much, but against an unelected assembly in mainland Europe, which — so the argument runs — is leaching powers away from the parliament in Westminster, where they should, by tradition and by right, be debated and kept.
But the American Society of Anesthesiologists has aggressively lobbied for keeping the advisory, which so far the F.D.A. has done.
Beside it sits a version of the library table from the Zurich show which so impressed the Turner judges.
Andreyanova fainted – which so moved the audience that they then gave her a standing ovation.
His conduct over Libya and Syria, which so disturbed the top brass, should disturb us too.
That would help reinforce the democracy, which so clearly distinguishes the island from the Communist mainland.
