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It's kind of weird that I never had much to do with Led Zeppelin, even though I was a teen-ager in the days of their glory. Indeed, I wonder whether they ever were very hot in Italy. Well, whatever. By all accounts, their reunion concert at the Dome was epoch-making, and with any luck I will now find out what all the fuss was about.

You could almost, but not quite, not make it up

Michael Schumacher, the greatest car driver since Juan Manuel Fangio, found himself in the back of a taxi yesterday in Berlin, late for an airplane he absolutely had to catch. He asked the driver to let him drive, took the wheel, and made it to the airfield just in time.