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DIED. LADY DIANA MOSLEY, 93, most scandalous and, some thought, most beautiful of the six famous Mitford sisters; in Paris. She left her first husband, heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley, the widely hated head of Britain's fascist party. After spending some of the war years in a London prison, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued to dazzle her frequent guests and write rigorous book reviews. Of Hitler, she said, in 2000, "I was fond of him. Very, very fond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 25, 2003 | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

Mariska is polite but firm. Her smile is tight. “Sir, everyone wants someone to love them for their whole lives. You’re not going to find it in the red light district. This is an information center for commercial...

Author: By Irin Carmon, | Title: Down to Earth | 8/15/2003 | See Source »

...week and locked his gaze on a scruffy young man with no suitcase leaning against a window. As the powerfully built 6-ft. 3-in. officer approached, wearing his Sig Sauer handgun and a peaked hat, the man began to move in the other direction. "Are you flying today, sir?" said McGhee. It took him less than a minute of questioning to confirm that this was just a kid waiting to pick up a family friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chastened Airport Watches for Suspects | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...electronic-surveillance devices and just enough unavoidable violence to keep things interesting, our heroes seek out the one man who holds the key not only to their exoneration but also to a mystery that could change the world. To help explain it to them, crippled, jovial, fabulously wealthy historian Sir Leigh Teabing points out a figure in a famous painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Help In The Wrong Place | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

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