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...Queen and Churchill himself knows what is said at these meetings (which often last an hour or more), for not even Philip may be present, but a glimpse of the forcefulness of the young Queen's questions may be had in the words of another senior Cabinet member, who recently remarked: "Younger ministers than I will soon learn that this is no woman to be trifled with." The British monarch's sole governmental duty is only "to advise, to encourage and to warn," but that can nevertheless be a vital and important duty. At this stage, Elizabeth...
...Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past, locked away with good penmanship in the cabinet of archaic talents. But what about those of us who didn’t want to say goodbye to the good old ABCs? For us, there was the spelling bee.Few people know this about me, but I was a speller once. They didn’t make any movies about...
...peace negotiations with the Palestinians in favor of unilateral moves. But withdrawing from the West Bank, which is home to 230,000 settlers, may prove more wrenching than it was in Gaza. "Sharon never meant to go as far as Olmert is proposing," says Natan Sharansky, a former Cabinet member who left Sharon's government to protest the Gaza pullout. "But this is Olmert's unique chance to prove his leadership...
STEPHEN LEWIS The U.N.'s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is the author of Race Against Time I suggest Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female President. She has set an astonishing precedent by appointing a Cabinet of exact gender parity. Also Liberia's new woman President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who broke the monolithic boys' club of Africa. She will bring economic and social justice to her country. And Zackie Achmat, who leads the world's most important AIDS activist organization. He has brought hope to millions living with AIDS in Africa...
...hard-line Hamas government holds its first cabinet meetings, it is legally necessary and morally proper to reassess American aid flowing into the West Bank and Gaza. And while it is only natural to consider Hamas’s reprehensible founding charter and past suicide bombings of Israeli civilians in making decisions about aid, it is equally important to make these decisions in light of the fact that Hamas won power democratically in a relatively free and fair election...