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...grounds of the Amador Officer's Club. There are more than 250 guests, nearly all of them middle-aged and conspicuously American, wearing colorful shirts and dresses, Hawaiian leis draped around their necks. Azcarraga's pudgy fingers are surprisingly agile on the organ keyboard as he pumps out the Scottish farewell. But then they should be. Although he is over 70, he plays this tune quite often. Most of the guests get to hear it pretty frequently too. "You say goodbye a lot around here these days," says Dick Morgan, who is being promoted to take over Cotton...
...adopted by Parliament, common law, international agreements, and "conventions," or unwritten rules that have developed over the centuries. For example, in theory the monarch has the right to withhold assent to any bill passed by Parliament. The last time that happened was in 1707, when Queen Anne vetoed the Scottish Militia Bill. Constitutional experts believe such an exercise in magisterial power today would cause a political crisis, possibly leading to the end of the monarchy...
...couple of hours later, give or take about six encores, it's all over. Scottish Singer Jean Redpath has sung in her lovely, clear voice, the Hawaiians have aloha'd, Guitarists Atkins and Leo Kottke have laid down some elegant tunes, Buster has woofed one last time before going on unemployment, the Norwegian bachelor farmers have made their final appearance at the Chatterbox Cafe, and Keillor has carried on shamelessly. "I'm going away, for to stay a little while," he has sung, "but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles." Does he mean...
...Last week, for example, Kinnock swung a cricket bat, signed a shovel at a muddy construction site and carried a six-year-old girl on his shoulders. For her part, Thatcher viewed an antique-doll collection, climbed aboard an amusement-park ride and sipped a beer at a Scottish brewery...
...himself. The publishing tycoon pulled out all the stops at his 75-acre estate in Far Hills, N.J., for the 70th birthday of Forbes magazine, which sports the motto "Capitalist Tool." At dusk 100 bagpipers marched from the hills toward a 13-ft. by 20-ft. replica of a Scottish castle floodlighted and surrounded by artificial fog -- and that was just the dinner announcement. Then some 1,100 VIP guests -- including Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Walters, Jerry Hall and Tom Brokaw -- dined and danced in a circus-size tent and watched a fireworks show set to music by Gershwin...