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...Labour government's leader of the Lords, Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about to get the chop. Twenty-one generations of Lord Fauntleroys influencing the affairs of the nation will come to an end. They will continue to have the right to call themselves Baron this and the Earl of that, and so will their firstborn sons. But they will no longer be admitted to the gold-and-crimson chamber of the upper house of Parliament...
This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...
...group that had hoped to be the first to transplant a hand. The winning team insisted they were not in a race with the Americans or anyone else, but they couldn't help crowing last week. "They may well be in a race with us," Australian microsurgeon Dr. Earl Owen told the New York Times, "but they will never catch...
...Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education W. Earl Sasser refers to the education and skills HBS faculty give their corporate students as "product." That corporate buzzword is typical of a setup that looks more like a cross between a consulting firm and a summer camp than a traditional university...
FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWNS 1932: 6, Earl Clark and Red Grange (This was the first year the NFL kept statistics.) 1961: 18, shared by Steve Van Buren (1945), Jim Brown (1958) and Bill Groman (1961), an increase of 200% 1998: 25, Emmitt Smith...