There is enough here to fill several novels even without their black-eyed sister, Margaret, who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, was imprisoned and escaped to France in disguise.

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Neither Italy, France nor Spain, let alone Greece, has ever known the kind of privatization cure Margaret Thatcher administered to Britain, though it should be said that Italy privatized rather extensively, in the 1990s.

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