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...Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown to a greater number of French than American troops. For the better part of his years in France, Franklin heard little from Congress aside from variations on a single refrain: the war hung by French assistance alone. As Robert Morris wrote, "In a word, Sir, we must have it, or we are undone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning a Wartime Ally: Making France Our Best Friend | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...Queensland?s Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Coming Up from Down Under | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. SIR DENIS THATCHER, 88, adoring, loyal husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; in London. A retired millionaire businessman, Thatcher often described himself as the most "shadowy husband of all times." He walked a step behind his wife of 52 years throughout her 11 years in office, calling himself her male consort. Thatcher, known for his right-wing views and blunt wit, was a golf addict who attributed his slim physique to "drink and cigarettes." Asked who wore the pants in the Thatcher home, he replied: "I do. And I wash and iron them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 9, 2003 | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

While she did not find a ring on her finger until six years later, Maddox is now a “Lady,” wife of Sir John Ryden Maddox, and has two grown children...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Late Starter’ Writes On Telecommunications, Famous Women | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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