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...MARLBOROUGH--As he jogged down Main Street during last week's Labor Day Parade, Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci was approached by an aide who informed him that he had missed shaking hands with one of his "biggest supporters...
Mahon's former strategic importance is captured in a visually exciting museum in British-built Fort Marlborough, near the harbor mouth. Quieter testimony can be found in the small, peaceful harborside cemetery, whose chipped slate gravestones carry pitifully meager details of the young seamen buried there--all that remains of an early 19th century American naval presence on the island. Elsewhere in the broad sweep of the harbor, several tiny islands, which formerly housed military and quarantine hospitals, highlight Minorca's colorful past...
Churchill came of a military dynasty. His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession. Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough. As a young man of undistinguished academic accomplishment--he was admitted to Sandhurst after two failed attempts--he entered the army as a cavalry officer. He took enthusiastically to soldiering (and perhaps even more enthusiastically to regimental polo playing) and between 1895 and 1898 managed to see three campaigns: Spain...
...write all his life. His life of Marlborough is one of the great English biographies, and The History of the Second World War helped win him a Nobel Prize for literature. Writing, however, never fully engaged his energies. Politics consumed him. His father Lord Randolph Churchill was a brilliant political failure. Early in life, Winston determined to succeed where his father had failed. His motives were twofold. His father had despised him. Writing in August 1893 to Winston's grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Marlborough, he said the boy lacked "cleverness, knowledge and any capacity for settled work...
...course of his six-year competitive career, Kulik, who moved to Marlborough, Mass., from Moscow in 1996, has not always performed so brilliantly. In recent months, though, he has moved up the rankings, largely thanks to his work with Russian ice-dancing coach Tatiana Tarasova, who two years ago came out of retirement to oversee Kulik's career. Last summer she put him on a regimen of cycling, running and weight lifting to bolster his conditioning. In December, Kulik, who has never won a world championship, defeated Stojko and Eldredge in Munich at the Champions Series final...