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During last week's regal state funeral of Prince Claus, Queen Beatrix's consort, the Netherlands looked like its old self, a place of traditional reserve and shared national feeling. When the ceremony was over, though, the country reverted to its more recent norms of chaos and calumny. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende informed the Queen that the government he put together 87 days ago had reached a dead end. The reason: a bitter leadership feud between Economics Minister Herman Heinsbroek and Health Minister Eduard Bomhoff, both members of List Pim Fortuyn (LPF). When Balkenende, a Christian Democrat, failed...
DIED. PRINCE CLAUS OF THE NETHERLANDS, 76, German-born royal consort to Queen Beatrix, whose 1966 marriage to the then Crown Princess provoked public anger in a country where memories of German aggression were still fresh; in Amsterdam. The onetime Hitler Youth eventually became the royal family's most popular member, fathering three sons and taking an active role in the Netherlands' Third World development policy...
...uglier and more deranged than the people who watched it.) But the show's producer, Velma Von Tussle (Linda Hart), insists on keeping the cast prim and pretty, with her blond daughter Amber (Laura Bell Bundy) as the Shrewish American Princess and hunky Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison) as her consort...
...bored-looking Chinese guide watches me curiously as I examine the dank and empty hulk of the pyramid's interior. In a sign of deference, Chinese and South Korean banknotes and coins are strewn across the stone slabs of what are ostensibly the sarcophagi of Changsu and his consort. It's a telling display of the two national claims on the site. Hearing of my interest in Koguryo, the guide challenges me, eager to gauge my opinion on a controversial subject. "Was Koguryo a Chinese or Korean kingdom?" she asks. Not wanting to offend, I say I do not know...
...hogs 26 parking permits in cramped San Fran. The city may want to rethink policy of allotting spaces based on fabulousness ANN WINTERTON British Tory M.P. sacked from opposition post for telling an Asian joke. If this is a fireable offense, the Queen might need to find a new consort JASON KIDD NBA star loses out on league MVP. Let's take a moment and remember that before he became a New Jersey Net, he was a Phoenix Wife Beater...