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...hard to see why the emotions differed so greatly from the Princess' farewell. As far as the Queen was concerned, Diana brought nothing but a decade of trouble to the House of Windsor ? whereas Britannia dutifully ferried their Royal Highnesses around the shrinking Empire, and subsequently the Commonwealth, for as long as she's been on the throne. And who wouldn't feel their heartstrings plucked by the strains of the now ever-so-poignant lyric "Britannia Rules the Waves...
...women can be decent, responsible citizens. While displays of "gay pride" may have noble intent, it's fair to note that drag queens, crude sexual imagery and other outlandish aspects of many such demonstrations do little to promote a concept of gays as valuable members of the commonwealth...
BOSTON: Louise Woodward versus the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Round 2: State prosecutors on Wednesday began the roller-coaster appeals process with an emergency request for the Supreme Judicial Court to overturn Judge Hiller Zobel's ruling which freed the British au pair. But Boston judge Ruth Abrams simply referred to a full appeals court...
...commonwealth status, which is the current status of the territory, maintains Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory subject to Congress' authority...
While plebiscites over the past 45 years have decided in favor of continuing the current commonwealth status, Roman traced the increasing support of the statehood option and described the commonwealth or free-associated state as obsolete...