Word: imperiale
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Charles is attracted to certain strains of New Age thinking. He longs to combine pragmatism with compassion. He is an admirer of the "small is beautiful" philosophy of the British economist E.F. Schumacher, and is a patron of a charity that Schumacher started to help Third World nations develop simple...
Caesars Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City hit the jackpot when Brian Molony became a regular customer. In 1981 and '82, the assistant bank manager from Toronto gambled away more than $7 million at its tables. Molony bet as much as $75,000 a hand at baccarat, and in two very...
Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles. No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism...
For former Imperial Japanese Navy Pilot Nobuo Fujita, 73, the youngsters' visit fulfills a long-standing promise. In September 1942, Fujita flew two raids over Brookings in a tiny seaplane, dropping incendiary bombs in an unsuccessful effort to ignite the surrounding thick forests. Twenty years later, the Brookings Junior Chamber...
His greatest coup was in 1796, when he received 371 sheets by Durer in a transfer from the imperial court library in Vienna. Not all were genuine, and scores were lost by theft during his lifetime, thanks to a corrupt employee who sold them to dealers, but the Albertina collection...