Word: amours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strangely, Ashdown's personal appeal increased only after a newspaper's February expose of his brief affair with a former secretary five years ago. Unlike Bill Clinton's alleged amour in the U.S., the Ashdown affair left voters sympathizing with the party leader they had not known well before. Even so, whoever comes up with a Commons majority after next week, the bold leadership Britain knew during the 1980s stands to shade into a more uncertain thing. Tories and Labour are groping for new directions. Ashdown commands the middle of the road, but he may get trampled under the stampede...
...interests that lie far from banking. He likes raising Corriente cattle, a kind used in rodeos. He likes growing raspberries. He likes making mobiles (two of which hang from the ceiling of his office). He has read all the 50 or so novels of his favorite author, Louis L'Amour, and now he is starting to reread them. "What do I like about him? The hero always wins. The women are always pure. The horses are great. They are out in the great West, and you learn...