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HAREMS WORKED' Sir Nicholas Fairbairn talks about life and love to Candida Crewe SIR NICHOLAS FAIRBAIRN tends to go in for the all-over tartan look. His sar- torial flourish on......

One Hundred Years Ago

RUSSIA is threatened with another ter- rible calamity, — an outbreak of cholera, which is officially admitted to be spreading itself from Meshed, through the Khanates, southward......