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...your 8 pounds is a walk through the main formal rooms: the Throne Room, the Picture Gallery, the Green, Blue and White drawing rooms, the best of which were designed by George IV's architect John Nash, and the worst by his pupil, Edward Blore. "Blore the bore," as he came to be known, took over the decoration of Buckingham Palace after Nash was dismissed by George IV's successor, William IV, for his "inexcusable irregularity and great negligence." Blore was a beacon of probity, but not of talent. His lack of it is why the east front...
...report said that Dowling and McCombe had a friendship which Dowling ended in 1980 before McCombe was hired by Harvard nine years ago. The report suggests that McCombe bore a grudge because Dowling would not lend him $800 in money after Dowling had given him money before. McCombe has said he never asked...
Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
Then there was the bomb -- made with military explosives and built right into the frame of a Toyota Land Cruiser, not just dropped into the trunk. Its internal mechanism bore the signature that the FBI had found in another bomb of undoubted Iraqi provenance. Asked if he was "certain" or just "highly confident" that Bush had been targeted by Saddam Hussein, a senior U.S. intelligence official tersely replied, "We're certain. Al-Ghazali was tasked specifically to kill President Bush...
...Britain in 1947. George enrolled at the London School of Economics, where, from philosopher Karl Popper, he learned about the links between communism and fascism and the importance of "open societies." The lessons stuck with Soros and now underpin his efforts on behalf of the part of Europe that bore the brunt of both repressive isms and where, he fears, freedom may be at risk if economic and political chaos provokes a return to authoritarian rule. "There are two reasons why I support open societies," he explains. "One is the possibility of actually having an impact, of turning a tragic...