In my view the greatest flat racehorses in the British Isles in the last 100 years were Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky, Dancing Brave and Shergar.

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The best vantage point to view the event, which he describes as "the greatest of the cosmos together with the greatest of our urban icons", is on Park Avenue and 34th Street, looking west, he says.

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Many view this as the single greatest art heist of all time.

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Mikla, atop the Marmara Pera Hotel, is a hot spot for its dark, contemporary cocktail lounge with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and outdoor terrace, perfect for admiring the greatest-hits-of-Istanbul view.

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The boss of one of the world's biggest banks told me over the weekend that the greatest threat to the recovery of his bank and of the British economy - in his view - is the ever rising burden of fines and compensation faced by all banks for their sloppy, reckless and rule-breaking ways in the boom years.

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"The really successful charities combine raw passion for their cause with a clear-eyed view of where they will get the greatest return on their fund-raising investment over the long term, " he says.

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From a Nash point of view, that makes perfect sense, as the elderly are at greatest risk of dying if they contract influenza.

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My view - unambiguous, always has been the case - is that probably the greatest achievement in European integration over recent years was ironically enough a British achievement.

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Winner's view is shared by Simon Kuper, journalist and co-author of "Soccernomics, " a book about football's truths, who subscribes to the view that England's methodology was spawned from a notion that the soldier was society's greatest role model.

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