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She does now. Perhaps Adrian Gambet and Gordon Cairnie, who founded the Grolier in 1927, would scarcely recognize it today. The original shop was not a poetry shop, but rather a place for overseas books, fine printing and contemporary limited editions. By the 1950s, it had become an established gathering...
Of course, Cummings has had rich soil to cultivate. Britons remain skeptical about the E.U.'s progressive pooling of national sovereignty, as one might expect from an island nation whose defining moments, from Waterloo to the Battle of Britain, have come from fighting Continental hegemons. Unlike the British tabloids, Cummings...
As a child, he lived three years in Poland. He has worked in Russia and has a Russian girlfriend. His favorite European city? Naples. ("It's beautiful, chaotic, no tourists.") But Dominic Cummings, natural born European, spends most waking hours trying to keep Britain from joining the euro.
Rangy and intense, Cummings comes from the gritty city of Durham where his father and uncles own a nightclub. While studying history at Oxford his summer job was sweeping floors and serving drinks in the family business. After graduation he sought adventure and profit in Russia, working with a friend...
Cummings thinks single currency advocates can't square their dark predictions for Britain outside the euro with its current boom, including buoyant inward investment. He fears the euro will actually hurt European stability, because if a recession hits, a single interest rate will exacerbate unemployment in some countries, to the...