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At a classically chic diplomatic dinner in a stately residence on Washington's Embassy Row one night last week, the conversation flowed as easily as the vintage French wine. The guests, all elegantly dressed, were a sprinkling of the capital's elite: the envoys and finance ministers of half a...
The best first novel out of Britain is Beggars on Horseback (Atlantic-Little, Brown) by James Mossman, 39. A tall, blond and handsome TV personality who was once a British foreign-service staffer, Mossman has written a satire on colonial debacle that is almost as savagely hilarious as Evelyn Waugh...
Above Vinland is a cartographic legend noting that "Eric, legate of the Apostolic See and bishop of Greenland . . . arrived in this truly vast and very rich land . . . in the last year of our most blessed father Pascal, remained a long time in both summer and winter . . ." Since Pope Paschal II...
Ghastly indeed is the beginning of the tale. On Feb. 10, 1306, Bruce fell upon his principal political rival, John Comyn of Badenoch, and stabbed him to death before the altar of a village church. Crowned King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that...
Fecund Frenchwomen. The boat ride tired De Gaulle, and when he returned to Paris, a scheduled Cabinet meeting was put off 24 hours. But after a day's rest, he not only presided over the meeting but played host to King Mahendra of Nepal. Later in the week, De...