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Born into a middle-class Welsh family, Heseltine studied accounting after Oxford and then went into property development and publishing, amassing a fortune worth more than (pounds)50 million. Elected to Parliament in 1966, he held various non-Cabinet posts under Edward Heath. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in...
During the final throes of an otherwise forgettable midterm campaign, Americans last week witnessed a strange spectacle: George Bush, the celebrated conciliator and undistinguished orator, tried -- at least for a couple of days -- to emulate Harry ("Give 'Em Hell") Truman.
Almost as soon as he entered Catholic parochial school, little Johnny was spotted as something special. He was athletic, outgoing and excelled at his studies. He won a full scholarship to La Salle Military Academy, a boarding school on eastern Long Island. There Sununu rose to lieutenant colonel and commanded...
The scene prompted double takes from Muscovites exiting the Sokol metro station. A few yards away, by the gateway of All Saints Russian Orthodox Church, waved the flag of pre-revolutionary Russia. Beneath the banner stood two young men in czarist military uniforms and two older men -- a grizzled Soviet...
Randall Terry, the pro-lifers' flamboyant orator, 29 and impulsive, wants to start moving the caravan before further layers of obstruction can be brought into place. He says enough men can just lift the few blockading cars out of the way. But Jeff White, two years Terry's senior and...