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DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
RUDY RULES BRITANNIA...
...unemployment, inflation and interest rates all at 25-year lows, real incomes and primary-school test scores rising, crime falling. But there is another Britain of shabby hospitals, underpaid teachers, overcrowded schools and 7 million adults who are functionally illiterate. The world's fourth-largest economy may be Cool Britannia, but it is also the sick man of Europe, trailing behind its Continental neighbors in many measures of quality of life...
...voted to ban the practice outright. It isn't the law yet--the House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings and large, expensive empires...
...class theme parks. The turn of the millennium will go down as the year that the earth's fun-seeking public, at least outside the U.S., soundly rejected their governments' efforts to keep them entertained. Take Britain's Millennium Dome--please. It was conceived as a symbol of Cool Britannia. The government spent $1 billion on it, then sold it last July for just $158 million to Japanese financial group Nomura amid a flurry of bad press, worse reviews and lousy attendance reports. The heads of chief executive Jennie Page and Bob Ayling, chairman of the Dome's operators...