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...DIED. SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH, 64, billionaire financier; of a heart attack after a long battle with cancer; at his villa near Malaga, Spain. Goldsmith made his nut with pharmaceuticals and groceries and parlayed it into a fortune as a corporate raider in the '80s, acquiring high-profile targets. A legendary gambler, his business motto was "If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it." Late in life he started one of his own, founding Britain's Referendum Party, which opposed the European common currency. His warm and very extended family included his third wife...
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Seventh, the AMERICAN STATES would agree to subfidize from tax levies a television network dedicated to the broadcaft of high-toned COFTUME DRAMAS and middlebrow police PROCEDURALS produfed in the British Isles, and to greet with enthufiafm, feigned if necessary, the mufical compofitions of SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER...
...drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives...