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Throughout its 195 years as the crisply formal dowager of Fleet Street, the Times of London has written a glorious history for itself. The newspaper reported the grim news of the doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War and brought word to Britain of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Alas, it appears that the "Thunderer," as the Times has long been known, may soon meet its own Waterloo. Last month the paper's proprietor, Lord Thomson of Fleet, announced that the Times (circ. 315,700) and its sister Sunday Times (circ. 1,418,500) would...
...Inside, shelves flaunt 6,000 paperback volumes of fact, fiction and fancy, skinny picture books for preschoolers, fat classics for the solemn. The "Hardy Boys." The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A Child's Garden of Verses. Mark Twain. Sinclair Lewis. Bernard Malamud. Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. But which one to pick...
...that when you get here, you are so numb from paranoia that you can be yourself. Have some jokes prepared--popular ones this year are likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that you got straight 800s. That'll show...
...reactor area, it is unlikely the siege would last long. How, short of guns and physical violence, would protesters maintain a presence if police wanted them out? Continuous arrests, continuous gassing, even a simple counter blockade to cut off food supplies--the prospects are not good. Napoleon Bonaparte, a man with credentials in the field, once remarked, "It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it." The New Hampshire police are equipped to deal with boltcutters--they have better equipment, and they are prepared...
...Union in June 1941, Moscow issued orders for all-out resistance to the Germans, who two months earlier had conquered Yugoslavia. Within days, Tito had established the General Headquarters of National Liberation Partisans' Detachments-taking the name "partisans" from the irregulars who had operated behind the lines during Napoleon's campaigns in Spain and Russia...