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Forget the 18 Prime Ministers, Wellingtons, Pitts and Walpoles: any school that is the ostensible alma mater of James Bond, Tarzan and Lord Peter Wimsey has clearly made a contribution to the world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors...
...Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked out. In the past year authorities have gunned down several Escobar associates, and the drug lord has twice narrowly escaped capture...
...Bennett's view, forming a partnership with Colombia's Cali cartel was a lucrative business opportunity. His main supplier, a drug lord known to him only as "Oscar," was in effect the chairman of the board of a multinational enterprise. Bennett saw himself as chief executive officer of the California subsidiary. He had an associate, Mario Villabona, who had moved from Colombia to California in 1983. Villabona, a protege of Oscar's, amounted to the California president...
Ever since he started the Hearstian buying spree that made his News Corp. the world's most diverse media company, rivals have been waiting for Rupert Murdoch to overreach and fall. They mocked his ambition to become the first press lord to bestride three continents: Europe, North America and his native Australia, where his holdings account for 60% of total daily-newspaper circulation. They belittled his free-spending plunge into book publishing. They scoffed when he spent more than $2 billion for seven U.S. TV stations, plus a movie studio to provide programs, for his high-risk start...
...defender of abortion rights, also attracted pro-choice voters who would have had nowhere to turn in a contest between Grunseth and Perpich, both of whom oppose abortion. Observes Kris Sanda, a Carlson adviser: "When they were faced with Rudy Perpich and Jon Grunseth, people started saying, 'Good Lord, is this all there is to choose from in Minnesota...