GROAN WITH TWOTWNo one would have believed, in the last instants of the World Series, that human affairs were being watched from the top of the Empire State Building. No one could have dreamed that a Latvian would be elected Pope. Few trainspotters even considered the possibility of joining the neighbourhood booze-and-knife bust. And yet, across the Berlin Wall, minds immeasurably weirder than ours, regarded a green and slightly runny pigeon dropping with envious eyes. And slowly and surely, they solved the 'Times' crossword. |