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Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Louis XIV and Alexander the Great were all cat haters. Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, Victor Hugo and Mark Twain were all cat lovers. I much prefer the company of the latter group...
What you mean, how old am I? About one hundred! But Viennese answer is better: we say, "I keep passing the open windows." This is an old joke. There was a street clown called King of the Mice: he trained rodents, he did horoscopes, he could impersonate Napoleon, he could make dogs fart on command. One night he jumped out his window with all his pets in a box. Written on the box was this: "Life is serious but art is fun!" I hear his funeral was a party. A street artist had killed himself. Nobody had supported...
...industrialized democracies are grappling with the problem of big government, but nowhere is the concept better understood than in France. Since 1800 an elite corps of Paris-appointed prefects-referred to by Napoleon as his "little emperors"-has carried the Tricolor and the edicts of the central government into each of the country's 95 départements, or districts. Under Mitterrand's reform, municipal and departmental decisions will no longer have to be submitted to the prefect for approval. Indeed, each prefect will be replaced by a Commissioner of the Republic, who will be informed only after...
...present torrid pace of acquisitions continues, U.S. companies could spend $70 billion this year to absorb more than 2,000 other firms. Says Robert Lekachman, professor of economics at New York's Lehman College: "The Reagan Administration has unleashed the wildest collection of mergers and takeover events since Napoleon conquered most of Europe...
...times excuse minor infractions because they feel it takes generations to make their kind of Catholic. The girls are blunter. "When I die," says one beautiful young aristocrat, "my great uncle Cardinal de Wesseldorf and my great-great aunt the Carmelite Abbess de Wesseldorf, who had an affair with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send a Wesseldorf to hell,' and into heaven I shall go." To Nanda she observes, "You're a nicely washed and combed and baptised and confirmed little heathen...