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...distinct vantage points. Constitutional experts and royal historians, many of whom have written books, provided historical context. But it was photographers who had the most to tell, even if they didn't want their names seen in print. "If I want gossip, I don't go to a gossip columnist. I go to photographers," Martha says. "There're a number of them making a living from shooting the royal family. With their sharp and trained eyes, they know a great deal about personal habits...
...headed up an education task force that instituted a competency test for teachers, brought a neonatal-care unit and two fully equipped hospital helicopters to the state and introduced a home- instruction program for parents of preschoolers, all the while attending teas in Batesville and Pea Ridge. Conservative columnist John Robert Starr of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a rabid opponent of Bill Clinton's, says that "the best thing that could happen would be to let Hillary run the country. I know that sounds ridiculous, but she has just never failed...
...doubt some of the President-elect's differences with Bush have to be discounted as inflated campaign rhetoric. Israeli political scientist Yosef Goell, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, regards the Democrat's promised tilt back to Israel as "total nonsense" and "all a smokescreen" designed to woo America's Jewish vote. On the whole, in fact, both major-party nominees saw eye to eye on the country's global role. Says Robert Hunter of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "One good thing about this election is that the two candidates are internationalist. The isolationists were defeated...
...HOWEVER, IT HAS, GERmany included. Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...
...panel, which included Boston Globe columnist Ellen H. Goodman '63 and Massachusetts State Sen. Lucile P. Hicks, agreed that Bill Clinton's inclusive style attracted a broad base of voters, including women...