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...mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked up a powerful group of Fleet Street papers including, in 1966, the prestigious Times of London. A certified "press lord" long before he was made a baron of the realm in 1964, Thomson was never a journalist. "I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money," he once said. "As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with...
...winner in a man's world," whether Louisa May Alcott was a novelist or a "tastemaker." The difficulties of such judgements should have made one thing very clear to them: that most "remarkable" women are remarkable because they defy these classifications, because they have gone beyond the expected realm of action...
Under the elaborate rules bequeathed to Spain by Franco, the King had to select his new Premier from a list of three names submitted by the Council of the Realm, an advisory body with a strong rightist outlook. Juan Carlos, however, seems to have had enough prestige and control over the council to get from it the kind of moderately reform-minded Premier he wanted. In addition to Suárez, the council suggested Gregorio López Bravo, conservative former Foreign Minister under Franco, and Federico Silva Muñoz, a former Public Works Minister under Franco and reputedly...
...what seem to be religious wars? Westerners tend to regard them as something anachronistic-an offense against the heritage of the Enlightenment, spasms of violent superstition. If war is often enough inexplicable, religious conflict at least seems to carry war's inherent irrationality into an even uglier, throwback realm of absolutes, beyond the reach of compromise. Or perhaps it is simply that agnostic societies find it difficult to understand why anyone would think religion worth fighting about...
...young Humphrey, Mecca became Washington, D.C. His first visit in 1935 at age 24 reduced him to barely coherent babbling. To his wife Muriel, he wrote: "Washington, D.C., thrills me to my very fingertips. I simply revel and beam with delight in this realm of politics and government. Oh, gosh-I hope my dream comes true...