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...Sheik Mohammed has spent several fortunes trying to win glory in the English Derby and has never done it," says Lord White of Hull, the chairman of Hanson Industries, whose Ever Ready subsidiary sponsors Epsom. "Paulson, on the other hand, has a very pragmatic attitude toward the financial rewards represented by the Triple Crown. You've got two very strong-willed men; the question of where Arazi runs may, in the end, come down to money...
Although a cease-fire arranged two weeks ago has been repeatedly violated, the E.C. tried again. Its chief negotiator, Britain's Lord Carrington, flew to Sarajevo and worked out another truce among Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the federal army. Leaders of the warring groups promised to observe the cease-fire and reopen negotiations, but such pledges in the past have gone unfulfilled...
...circus pioneer Philip Astley joined the family business. At age 10, John could dance a minuet on three horses and so impressed Marie Antoinette that she presented him with a gold medallion. Lord George Sander, who gave himself the title and was Great Britain's equivalent of P. T. Barnum, was also born into a circus family...
Gavan Meehan and Colum Amory play Lord Dramaleigh and the Company Promoter Mr. Goldburg, who brings limited liability to Utopia. As they set about their task of forming a company out of the country, where "every child has its own prospectus" and "every man, woman and child is a company limited," Dramaleigh and Goldburg woo the two highly repressed princesses, much to the annoyance of Lady Sophy, Phantis and Scaphio...
...They developed over time," says Lord Bullock -- he became a life peer in 1976 -- so he decided to study that process in a comparative, parallel biography of the two, something no one else has done. Bullock is the author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952), the first great postwar biography of the dictator. "I'm a narrative historian, and in the course of the narrative," he says, "it comes clear" precisely how Hitler and Stalin rose to supreme power in Germany and Russia...