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The story was thoroughly English. There was a little fox-hunting and a little tuft-hunting, some Christian virtue and some Christian cant. There was no heroism and no villainy. There was much Church, but more love-making. And it was downright honest love,—in which there was no pretence on the part of the lady that she was too ethereal to be fond of a man, no half-and-half inclination on the part of the man to pay a certain price and no more for a pretty toy. Each of them longed for the other, and they were not ashamed to say so. Consequently they in England who were living, or had lived, the same sort of life, liked Framley Parsonage.
Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography

Everyone Wants a Piece of Kerry
It seems that everyone wants a piece of American Democratic Party presidential front-runner John F. Kerry these days.
And now that the Massachusetts senator has swept almost every primary contest so far and emerged as a likely Democratic Party presidential nominee, a tug of war over who can claim rights to Kerry's heritage has spurred debate in the Czech Republic.
In the small, poverty-stricken town of Horni Benesov in north Moravia, residents have watched with interest as Kerry has continued to dominate the dwindling pack of candidates.
Their interest stems from the tracing of Kerry's roots back to the once-prosperous mining town. It was in Horni Benesov that his Jewish grandfather, Fritz Kohn, worked as a brewer before emigrating to America, converting to Catholicism and changing his name at the beginning of the last century, according to a genealogical study carried out last year by the Boston Globe.
· Sudetens lay claim to Kerry ancestry [ courtesy of Prague Post]
Madeleine Albright (Mrs. Fulbright): the Iron Czech