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...Privately, Blair's acolytes acknowledge that there's some truth to Peston's story, and blame Brown's camp for leaking it to him. There was "clearly some collusion on the book with Gordon's people," says a friend of the Prime Minister. According to Julia Langdon, a political biographer researching her own study of the Chancellor, "Even if Gordon didn't use those exact words, there will have been a showdown. Brown has completely lost patience with Blair." Blair's strategy now seems to be to use the dust-up to force...
...would support Blair in return for the promise that Blair would step down as Prime Minister if Labour secured a second term. Like the Granita restaurant, Blair's memory of any such arrangement has shut down. "You don't do deals over jobs like this," he insisted last week. Langdon suggests that Blair and Brown came away from the meal with entirely different understandings of what had been agreed. "The key to Blair's success is that people take from him what they want to hear," she says. "Gordon is fantastically literal and he took from Blair what he wanted...
...JULIA LANGDON, Brown biographer
...Louvre. Rosslyn Chapel outside Edinburgh welcomed twice as many tourists in July as last year, and predicts its yearly numbers will increase by at least 25%. General Tours, a U.S.-based travel company, is offering an all-inclusive eight-day travel "adventure" this month in the footsteps of Robert Langdon, the book's protagonist, visiting sites in France, England and Scotland. Cost: $2,900 to $3,800, including airfare, tel: (1-603) 357 5033. "A lot of this is simply clever entrepreneurialism," says Stuart Beattie, Rosslyn's project director. Not that he intends to miss the rush: joining the Rosslyn...
Assistant Professor of Economics Veronica Chase joins an illustrious league of fictional Harvard professors who leave their ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase...