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...Tiepolo ceiling paintings, one in the drawing room of London's Egyptian embassy and the other at a golf club outside London; and a Caravaggio in an English country home. So renowned were his feats, it was said that financially hard-pressed British landowners dreamed of hearing the butler announce, "A Mr. Carritt to see you, my lord...
Foreclosed Mortgages. With interest rates at historic highs, millions of Americans have managed to buy homes only because the seller was able to pass along a version of the old low-interest mortgage with the house. But now it appears that assumable mortgages may go the way of the butler's pantry. By a 6-to-2 vote, the court upheld a 1976 federal regulation allowing federally chartered savings and loan associations to enforce due-on-sale clauses in their lending agreements. Such clauses require a seller to pay off his mortgage rather than transfer...
...stroke; in Tryon, N.C. Their best-known characters were Pam and Jerry North, a sophisticated husband and wife team who unraveled complex crimes on stage, screen, radio and television, while adhering to one of Lockridge's cardinal rules: ''Never pin a murder on the butler...
...house is well staffed with all three. Unseen on an upper floor is the dying Tinkbell, a butler before whom employers cringe, quite apart from guests. The current butler and harried man-of-all-work, Maitland (Donal Donnelly), has done five years in jail as a conscientious objector. He is a flavorsome cousin of Bernard Shaw's servants, brimming with querulous grievance...
...factory robot that crushed a man to death in Japan last year did little to silence the talk that machines are a threat to human preeminence. That talk has been alive ever since people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler's satire Erewhon (1872), the citizens establish a museum of old machines in which they at once deposit and abandon their mechanical inventions, which they believed would swallow up their souls. When machines possess artificial intelligence, like computers, the human fear of being overtaken seems both more urgent and more complex...