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...Europe's great and good, this will not be easy. Europeans love thinking about America, part in longing, part in envy, part in disdain. You could spend a nice year trotting from Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to Salzburg, from the Italian lakes to German castles, doing nothing but ponder in earnest detail the state of the Atlantic alliance. It's a monumental waste of time. Nearly six years after those passionate disagreements on the invasion of Iraq, U.S.-Europe relations are just fine, with a clutch of Atlanticists heading the governments of Britain, France and Germany - and leading the European...
...Ditchley can't recall exactly when he first began to suspect that the lawyers were out to get him. Maybe it was when, as a young man, he bought a modest house?and had to take out a second mortgage to pay the lawyer's closing fee. Maybe it was when Grandmother left some money, and Ditchley, through his grief, began dreaming of a nice vacation and maybe enough left over for a snowblower. Then the lawyers got into the act, clucking about what a mess Grandmother had left and how lucky Ditchley was that, thanks to their skill...
...clouds really began to lower when Ditchley started his own business. His lawyers practically lived with him, filing taxes, dealing with pension plans, dodging safety inspectors and responding (in triplicate) to 12,472 government questionnaires dealing with things like the number of soap spigots in the washrooms and the ratio of three-toed dwarfs he employed relative to their number in the total population. Ditchley was becoming, frankly, a little paranoid on the subject of lawyers. His sister's divorce didn't help...
...first Malvina was very civilized about the whole thing, but then she and Sidney went out and hired a couple of lawyers. The neighbors soon had to call the cops to prevent trial separation of heads from torsos. Even when his daughter became engaged, Ditchley couldn't escape from the lawyers; she called one in to help her write a marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike...
Kennedy started out Jan. 25 ahead of 16 other members of Congress bound for a seminar on Anglo-American af fairs at Ditchley Park in England.* By the time he returned at the end of last week, he had touched down in London, Paris, Bonn and Rome; he had talked with prime ministers and foreign ministers, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul, students and showfolk and assorted beautiful people. With an eye to future change, he saw opposition leaders too. Bobby also wanted to meet Mai Van Bo, the North Vietnamese envoy in Paris, but U.S. embassy officials dissuaded...
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