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...Lady Montdore vows to cut Polly off without a cent. The repulsive Boy Dougdale—nicknamed the Lecherous Lecturer on account of the “things he does to little girls”—seems slightly shocked as well. Polly, though, is floating on a cloud of bliss...
...gifts very close to home. In his first novel, Ghostwritten, in 1999, David Mitchell, now 37, invented the planetary novel, in a way, by setting nine stories in eight countries and describing a single spirit that ran through them all like a fuse. In his third novel, 2004's Cloud Atlas, he turned the postmodern book inside out by setting pieces in six different ages and voices, then doubling back (a little too fancily perhaps) to explore the idea of "eternal recurrence." In his new, most deeply personal work, Mitchell does something even more remarkable: he makes the well-worn...
...Gromyko. Like many another working couple in their realm, Elizabeth and Philip begin their day by listening to the 8 o'clock BBC newscast. Half an hour later, they discuss it over a breakfast of tea, toast and kippers,'and soon they are lost in a cloud of newspapers. Elizabeth pores through three papers each morning, not overlooking the sports pages, and like most women, she shudders slightly when she sees her own picture. Newspictures have seldom done her justice...
...poor relation of the Mountbattens, Philip was educated at St. Cloud in Paris, a progressive school in Scotland, and the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth...
...cloud of corruption has hung over Lula's government for most of the past year. His administration has been accused of paying opposition deputies to support its bills in Congress, engineering an illegal campaign finance scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars and even paying a small right-wing party to jump on the PT's bandwagon before the electoral campaign started. Before Palocci's sudden exit, the party's president, treasurer and secretary-general had all resigned under the same suspicions of graft...