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...Last March, Mosley invited five women to a posh Chelsea apartment to engage in what he readily admits was a sadomasochistic orgy, replete with canes, prison uniforms and old-fashioned spanking (a true Englishman, Mosley served the women tea after their session). To his ultimate distress, though, hidden cameras were rolling. The tabloid posted the footage online, accompanied by an article that described the event as "a depraved Nazi-style orgy in a torture dungeon." Mosley's wife of 48 years learned of her husband's sexual predilections for the first time, Formula One racers and sponsors called...
...third chukker, Yale rebounded from its slow start to steal the momentum, exploding for five unanswered goals. Spreading the ball around and following up teammates consistently leaving the ball behind them, three of the four Bulldog players posted goals. Rising senior Michael Losak started things off, and native Englishman David Ashby— Yale’s substitute, who was filling in for the recently injured Bulldog Robert Burk—added two scores. Unfortunately for Yale, time was not on its side, as the horn sounded just seconds after recent graduate Adam Nelson posted goal number five, ending...
Head groundsman at the All-England Club, Eddie Seaward, says the new grass was developed because the tournament needed a plant that could withstand the wear of the modern game. Grass surfaces that could put up with lightfooted gents in trousers - like Fred Perry, the Englishman who dominated Wimbledon in the 1930s - couldn't as easily endure the exertions of, say, 6-ft.-6-in. (1.98 m) Max Mirnyi, a.k.a. the Beast from Belarus...
...American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in 1856, captured a persistent truth about the Englishman: "Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him indoors whenever he is at rest ... he dearly loves his house." Little has changed since then; the English still lavish attention on their homes. Any whiff of news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation...
...downturn in the British market exposes more than just property investments. The social and cultural value of home ownership in the U.K. makes any slump more difficult to shoulder. The roots of this love affair with property go deep. For centuries, a house of one's own gave an Englishman not just privacy and status; until 1832, those in the countryside had no right to vote without property of a certain value. Small wonder, suggests Stuart Lowe, a housing expert at the University of York, that the English dream of home ownership has become "a deep cultural issue...