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...desperate man? The mogul is 79 years old. His love affair with newspapers has lasted longer than his three marriages. But now it's an open question as to who will cease to exist first: Rupert or the newspaper as we know it. (Murdoch's mother Dame Elisabeth is 100.) He has made it clear that he wants one of his children - probably James - to run the show after he exits. This partly explains why he and his loyal and capable No. 2, Peter Chernin, recently parted company. But none of his children loves newspapers the way he does...
...upholding a law introduced in 1993, which banned multiple surnames in Germany. Before this legislation, triple- or quadruple-barreled names were rare, but they existed: there is an East German athlete, for example, named Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, and a prominent pollster and political scientist who went by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz until she dropped the second half of her name after her husband died. And members of the German aristocracy often carry extremely long names. (See pictures of Berlin...
...Austria Dungeon Dad Pleads Guilty Three days into Josef Fritzl's trial on charges of imprisoning and repeatedly raping his daughter Elisabeth in a homemade dungeon for 24 years, he pleaded guilty to all charges. Fritzl previously admitted to incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment. But in a surprise move, he also took responsibility for the death of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter. Fritzl will probably spend the rest of his life in prison...
...French Queen Marie Antoinette was 28 when she sat for this portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun...
...Elisabeth Fritzl had been abused by her father as a child, and at 16 she ran away but was returned home by police. When social workers came to the house, they spoke only to her father. Later, when she was kidnapped, the police launched only a limited investigation, and no official suspicions were raised when, three times in two years, Fritzl approached courts seeking to adopt or be recognized as the foster parent of the three children he claimed had been left on his doorstep in cardboard boxes...