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...course, been planning all her life. Born the eldest daughter of Lord Digby, a baron, in 1920, she would never inherit the 2,500-acre family estate that went eventually to her only brother. But Pamela Digby was bored in the Dorset countryside. She craved more excitement and found it by marrying Randolph Churchill, whom she had met on a blind date just weeks after the 1939 outbreak of World War II. The only son of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Randolph was a womanizer, and the marriage was tempestuous. When he left to battle Germans, Pamela began a series...
...replace a piece of history like the Tasty," said Talia Baron, a high school senior and co-founder of the Square Liberation Front...
Even for a duke of cyberspace like Bill Gates, the price seemed steep. In 1994 he paid the estate of oil baron Armand Hammer $30.8 million for one of Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry...
...Rockefeller, a descendent of the oil baron, is in a good position to win a third term: few have heard of his challenger, and the G.O.P. hasn't won a Senate race in West Virginia since 1956. A vocal supporter of the ill-fated Clinton health-care-reform plan, he would still like to guarantee medical coverage for every American. Rockefeller came to the state in 1964 as a VISTA volunteer and is a devoted advocate for children and family issues...
...anyone who has worked for an individual press baron knows, these men can be insidious meddlers. On the other hand, sometimes a news operation can be editorially insulated within a large corporation, either because of its heritage or because of a pragmatic realization that intrusive shenanigans tend to backfire publicly and cause more trouble than they are worth...