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...wilderness, Britain's Conservatives are excited-their party on Tuesday elected a new leader they believe can take them back into power after suffering three successive defeats by prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party. On the face of it, choosing 39-year-old David Cameron, educated at exclusive Eton College and Oxford, might seem a gamble: Although he served as a special adviser to two Tory cabinet ministers during the 1990s, he has comparatively little parliamentary experience for a party leader, having served only four years as an MP and joining the party's parliamentary leadership only last...
There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. In one of the most compelling indictments against private education ever set forth on screen, Bridget describes Darcy’s alma mater, Eton, as “one of those fascist institutions where they stick a poker up your arse which you’re not allowed to take out for the rest of your life.” She takes on the uptight lawyers at one of Darcy’s work functions, railing against their tiresome Tory belief systems but oblivious to their...
...trial in the capital, Malabo, testified last week that he met Thatcher last year, and that Mann and Thatcher had discussed the sale of helicopters for mining operations in Sudan. Mann may be the most direct link between Thatcher and the coup plot. In the early 1990s, the Eton and Sandhurst-educated Briton set up a security consultancy known as Executive Outcomes, which was hired for private military operations by governments in Africa. A letter from Mann to his wife smuggled out of his Harare prison cell and shown to British newspapers suggests that he was expecting $200,000 from...
Today Le Carre is hale, white-haired and vigorous. He has a hearing aid discreetly tucked in each ear, but he is otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...
...additions to the mountain of Orwelliana provide new intelligence on one of literature's most puzzling figures. Like the time he used black magic to kill somebody. In a minor literary scoop, Bowker reports that the teenaged Eric Blair made a wax effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings...