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Fiorentina Footie Fiasco Italian football authorities gave former glamour club Fiorentina the boot from Italy's Serie B competition after the club, reportedly facing bankrupt-cy, failed to meet a deadline to arrange cover for its $22 million debt. Fiorentina has been in difficulty since...
...name of Neddy Maddstone, which should tell you right off the bat that you're not in Clancyland. Young Maddstone's problem is that he's insufferably perfect; the son of a member of Parliament, he's also handsome, handy at cricket and a nice guy to boot. Naturally, his pals are jealous, but when they play a prank on him that backfires, he winds up in possession of a secret message from an I.R.A. terrorist. The I.R.A. promptly whisks Ned away to a mysterious Scandinavian oubliette, where he clings to sanity only by studying literature and philosophy and playing...
...action figure in his own likeness. Cute, but what child has the patience to braid all those itty-bitty cornrows? Losers ELIZABETH HURLEY Fab femme is edited out of new Austin Powers movie because she's not funny. If that's the criteria-then when is Beyonc? getting the boot? TINA BROWN Former Talk editor's contract bought out early by Miramax for $1 million. That should about cover her lunch tab at the Royalton Hotel JEFFREY ARCHER British novelist loses bid to shorten a four-year jail term for perverting justice. Much more time behind bars and justice will...
...Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in Foreign Affairs this year, "and by virtue of its power, America is bound to play the leading role." In a much-talked-about new book, The Savage Wars of Peace--the very title is a line from Kipling--Max Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features editor, argues that the U.S. should not fear engaging in small wars to improve the lot of those in lands less happy than ours. "Yes, there is a danger of imperial overstretch and hubris," writes Boot, "but there is an equal...
DIED. JAY BERWANGER, 88, first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1935 and first player ever drafted by the NFL; in Oak Brook, Ill. In the days before platoon football, Berwanger had to pass, block, tackle, punt, kick off, boot extra points and return punts. Unimpressed by football fame, he stored the trophy at the home of his aunt, who used it as a doorstop...