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Queen Elizabeth is reported to have risked 1 pound in the Windsor Castle betting pool. Alas, the unlucky monarch drew...
Countries that borrow and consume too much are destined to lose out, and a cheap currency cannot save them in the end. Eighty years ago, the world's most powerful currency was the British pound sterling, which enjoyed the same almighty reputation as the dollar once did. But the country's post-World War II collapse sent the pound reeling, and while further declines in the currency have occasionally boosted British exports, Britain is no longer the prosperous place it once was. Any visitor can see that...
...latter came from his indulgent father, a partner in a Boston department store, and it enabled Kirstein, during his freshman year at Harvard in 1926, to found Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly that ran seven years, published original work by the likes of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and lost approximately $8,000 an issue. Somewhat less expensively, Kirstein also began the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, an organization that provided much of the impetus for the establishment of the Museum of Modern...
...extinction for its advocacy of polygamy in the late 19th century, the Mormon Church is now the epitome of family values and commands an estimated $8 billion in assets even as it accumulates the annual tithes from its millions of believers. Its current challenges: feminism and historical revisionism that pound away at the faith...
Aoki garnered a 12-4 record at the 126-pound category, a fact made all the more impressive considering that he wrestled injured for about half of the season...