Word: consorts
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This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
...harassment. Taylor notes, for example, that there is solid corroborating evidence: that within a day of the alleged encounter, Jones told two friends and two sisters what happened and that her story has remained consistent. And after some investigation, Taylor found that she was fundamentally apolitical and didn't consort with Clinton enemies until after she failed to be taken seriously...
Just one of the problems he will probably face is raised by Yale's British historian Linda Colley: "Whom will he find to marry him?" She notes that over the past hundred years, the monarchy has recruited women like Queen Mary, George V's consort, who epitomized royal womanhood's acquiescence and sense of duty, and the present Queen Mother, who has been just as responsible and effervescent as well. Diana was very young and inexperienced, sexually and otherwise. Where, Colley asks, are such young women to be found in this age of independence, blossoming careers and cohabitation...
...some extent, the same degrading destiny. It was Charles' great-great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria, who famously advised a daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner...
Last week Queen Elizabeth II was doing the sort of thing a 20th century monarch is supposed to do: moving gracefully through a state visit to Russia, the first ever by a British sovereign. At her side was her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, elegantly performing his task, which is simply to support her. Custom and ceremony incarnate, they were national symbols to be proud...