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Saturday 25 September 1999 19:02 EDT
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I want her isolated, I want her destroyed.

John Major on Lady Thatcher, according to the diaries of his former political secretary, the late Judith Chaplin.

I am the heavyweight champion who retires undefeated. I will never go back in the ring. I'm too pretty to take the punches.

Marco Pierre White on his retirement from the kitchen.

Thomas Cranmer (1503 intake) is to have a locomotive named after him by Great North Eastern Railways.

Old Boys' section of the latest Jesus College, Oxford, annual report.

A man from the past versus a man with a past.

Lib Dem London mayoral candidate Susan Kramer on Steven Norris and Lord Archer.

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