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They won just one medal at the Torino Olympics and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids - each seemingly larger than the last - has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted ?40 million ($70 million) or even more - the precise figure has not been revealed - will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It's certainly...
...time the President moved to quash it several days later with assurances that he wouldn't have allowed the deal "if there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States," it was far too late to quell the Republican rebellion. "This freight train had already left the station," says a Bush aide. And the President's threat to use his first-ever veto was no obstacle to its momentum...
They won just one medal at the Torino Olympics, and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids--each seemingly larger than the last--has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted £40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring...
Dora Greenfield arrives at Imber Abbey without her bags, holding only a butterfly between her hands. She soon realizes her mistake—that she has left all of her belongings on the train, including her husband’s irreplaceable notebook—and releases the colorful butterfly...
...same instincts that attracted her to the butterfly on the train, and made her forget all else, seem irreconcilable with the routine life that those at Imber lead. Dora has come to the Abbey as an outsider—she joins her husband Paul, a scholar who is investigating Imber’s medieval manuscripts. She has no innate religious tendencies...