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...DIED. SIR JOHN PLUMB, 90, colorful British historian and oenophile; in Cambridge, England. A working-class boy who fell in love with history and became a prolific author of popular books on the Renaissance and the British monarchy, he also produced more scholarly works. He was considered the resident, somewhat cantankerous genius of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he spent his entire academic career...
...Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Prince Andrew, in a visit to New York, cited his "outstanding help and support to the bereaved British families in New York" after the Sept. 11 attack. Because he is not a British citizen, he will not be called Sir...
...expectations among an impatient American public. That may be why Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem told a midweek briefing, "I'm a bit surprised at how doggedly (the Taliban) are hanging on to power? They have proven to be tough warriors." At the same time, British chief of staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce warned that hit-and-run commando operations would not be enough to get bin Laden, suggesting that raids behind enemy lines would have to last days or even weeks. But when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told USA Today that while the Taliban would surely fall, he could...
...Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded phone calls from the governor and the garrison commander. He put the phone down and eyed us three newcomers, while twisting the end of his mustache. Suddenly, TIME photographer Alexandra Boulat, who happens to be a willowy French woman, stood up and said: "Sir, I'm fed up of bouncing along these roads. We want to go the border in a limousine. A Mercedes-Benz. Can you arrange it? And of course, you are most welcome to come with...
...been subjugated by Rome, should be from the Caribbean. Naipaul is also one of the very few writers to have a whole, book-length cruise missile of a memoir fired at him by a fellow writer. In 1998 Paul Theroux, in a striking fit of Oedipal peevishness, published Sir Vidia's Shadow, painting his former friend and mentor as a self-obsessed, avaricious, pathologically snobbish brute. Perhaps he is. If so, he is not the first major writer to be one. Generally, nice guys don't do too much for world literature...