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...London Times in 1980 judged her to be probably the most popular royal personage of all time. Britons were inclined to believe that her resplendent smile would never fade. Despite failing health, she managed to greet thousands of well-wishers outside her home on her 101st birthday celebration last August with a raised glass of champagne. Only seven weeks ago, although grief stricken and looking frail, she insisted on attending the funeral of her 71-year-old daughter, Princess Margaret. Last Saturday afternoon, her job well done, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London...
Elizabeth never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. Every August she repaired to her home at the Castle of Mey on the coast of northern Scotland. There she loved to listen to her collection of bagpipe records, to don waders and go fishing for salmon with Prince Charles or simply to tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals...
...Bush Doctrine is more than partly responsible for the madness. Let me not overstate the case; it is true that things were going downhill in the Middle East well before Sept. 11 and our president’s proclamation of war against terrorism. On the day I left last August, 18 people were killed by a suicide bomber in a Sbarro Restaurant in West Jerusalem that I walked by a dozen times in the previous five days. Yet, the events of the past week have demonstrated how hollow and insubstantial the Bush Doctrine really is, and the terrible consequences...
...meeting were even more harmful. Church leaders found out about the meeting. Taking into account his disruptive actions and his recent failure to attend services (“I was getting sick all the time,” he says), the BCC asked Lee to leave in August 1993. They labeled him a bad example, telling him, “You are causing people to stumble...
...security practices, will cite a glaring lapse first disclosed in the book "The Spy Next Door," co-authored by this reporter and former TIME correspondent Ann Blackman: if FBI background investigators had looked at a widely available commercial database that lists vehicle registrations, they would have discovered that in August 1991, Hanssen bought a Mercedes for his paramour, stripper Priscilla Galey, and registered it in her name but at his home address. In fact, the FBI didn't find out about Hanssen's extramarital - and pricey - relationship with Galey until his arrest in February...