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...successor to the often mercurial Evans, a product of the working class, Murdoch chose an irreproachably Tory blueblood: Times Deputy Editor Charles Douglas-Home, 44, a nephew of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Home. Douglas-Home was schooled at Eton and served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment...
There is only one thing worse than having a car towed away for parking violations: getting the automobile back after it has been taken by police. The process can consume an entire day and involve almost as much hassle and humbling as being drummed out of the regiment. Endless hours must be spent in lines leading to sometimes abusive traffic-court clerks who treat parking offenders as if they were homicide suspects. Policemen and judges often heap scorn on a miscreant. Tow-truck operators can be just as surly...
...become of the sweet voice that made its owner the most affecting Rodolfo of his generation in Puccini's La Bohemel What has befallen the technique that allowed Pavarotti to toss off the famous nine high Cs in an aria from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with the effortless abandon that marks only the greatest tenors? What has happened to the suave phrasing and sure sense of style, which made his recording of Nessun dorma from Turandot an example to musicians everywhere? Have Pavarotti's duties as operatic emissary to the world begun to interfere with...
With all the talk of Tar Heel blue, "What's a Tar Heel?" is the first question that springs to mind. Apparently, during an important civil war battle the North Carolina frontline regiment held off a Yankee offensive. After the siege ended, General Lee praised the Carolina contingent, saying, "You boys stood firm, as if you had tar on your heels." Whether that tale's true or not, the state is known for its natural underground tar pits that occasionally cause tar accumulations on the Carolina beaches...
...temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some in burlap and bandages; and, of course, 750 English redcoats and Hessians, gallant in their mock defeat...