Word: london
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...heavyweights' next regatta will be the 134th meeting between Harvard and Yale in four weeks in a four-mile race on the Thames River in New London, Conn...
Virtually all of ELIZABETH HURLEY's anatomy was on view last week at the London premiere of boyfriend HUGH GRANT's film Notting Hill. But the part of her that got the most stroking was her ego, as Hurley upstaged the film's star Julia Roberts by wearing a nearly see-through Versace dress. Roberts did not go entirely unnoticed by the fashion press, but unfortunately it fixated on her armpits, which were visibly unshaven. Note to Julia: next time, try cleavage...
...centuries-old nationalist passions are reentering the political mainstream at a time when Britain itself is being increasingly absorbed into the European Union's supra-state, but the gradual merging of Europe's nation-states may be actually encouraging renewed claims to sovereignty in its component parts. And making London and other capitals more relaxed about extending autonomy...
...process was uneven and sometimes sparked a nationalist backlash. Among the Basques of Spain or the Corsicans of France, this has taken the form of separatist violence. Among the Scots it has been largely confined to the soccer field. After all, they receive 32 percent more per capita of London's public funds than the English do, which may be part of the reason why Tony Blair's Labor Party is still the largest bloc in Scotland even though voters denied it an outright majority last week...
...Rushdie made a rare public appearance at a U2 concert in 1993, coming onstage to greet lead singer Bono who was dressed (appro-priately enough for his meeting with The Satanic Verses' author) as the devil. A few years and a little hob-nobbing later, Rushdie, once a London music critic takes on the rock world from its birth in the '50s, through the glam '70s and into the technologically-driven '90s. Pop culture references abound; Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Simon and Garfunkel, Andy Warhol and even Joh F. Kennedy. turn up somewhere, some of them slightly veiled...