McConnell raises spectre of ethnic conflict to attack SNP 

JACK McConnell, the First Minister, last night warned Scots against “inter-ethnic conflict” by choosing to split from the United Kingdom.

SPEAKING OF DVDS: FESS PARKER 
He wandered out of the wilderness of Hollywood unknowns in 1954 to become an American icon portraying an American pioneer. Fess Parker, 6 feet 5, with an affable personality, an easygoing nature and a drawl that gave away his Texas heritage, seemed born to…

Never known for Gold Glove 
It is said that if you tell a story often enough there will come a day you will absolutely believe it even if it may not have happened exactly the way you remember it.

Capsule movie reviews 
“Babel” (R) A collaboration of director Alej ndro Gonzalez I rritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, “Babel” is a Debbie Downer illustration of the butterfly effect — you know, the theory that the flutter of monarch wings in San Francisco may result in a lethal weather system in New Delhi.

The Buc stops here 
After Jim Tracy’s taxi from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ hotel in Century City deposited him outside Dodger Stadium’s right-field corner Friday afternoon - the opposite side of the building from where he used to drive in - he sat down in one of the yellow seats and looked out at a half-decade of memories.