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...doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution...
...ornate language which uncannily mimics nineteenth century prose also contributes to this distancing effect. Nailing down the antiquated style presented some difficulties; an Edinburgh scholar of the time period's nonfiction checked Phillips' manuscripts for anachronistic syntax. The language produces an almost surreally understated voice that allows Phillips to write about the horrors of slavery in a eerie, muted fashion. As he says, "you've got all these massive dramas going on--people living in the most unbelievable poverty, people being killed--and [Emily's] writing about it as if it's very polite after dinner conversation...
...December the E.C., at its summit meeting in Edinburgh, expressed its outrage at "these acts of unspeakable brutality." So did the U.N. Security Council. The E.C. summit appointed a 12-member team, which found mass rape had been committed "in the context of expansionist strategy" -- that is, ethnic cleansing. The investigators reported that "daughters are often raped in front of parents, mothers in front of children, and wives in front of husbands." David Andrews, a member of the commission, who was at the time Ireland's Foreign Minister, said it was clear that rape had "become an instrument...
COULD IT BE THAT THE EPIPHANY OF MAASTRICHT was only a year ago? As the heads of the European Community's 12 members convened in Edinburgh's royal Palace of Holyroodhouse, the issue was no longer whether the visionary 1991 draft treaty calling for political and monetary union by 1999 was off course. That much had been amply certified, first by Denmark's rejection, then by severe strains in an interim currency mechanism, by a festering budget crisis and finally, less than a week earlier, by a referendum in nonmember Switzerland that came down against experimenting even with a customs...
Even the timing of the separation statement was ridiculed. Major canceled a meeting with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, just before the Edinburgh summit. Says London University constitutional expert Peter Hennessy: "Royal issues still override all other issues." Anthony Holden, a biographer of Prince Charles, remarks of the announcement, "It just may be that Major is dumb enough to think that the Edinburgh conference would bury it, and the royal family is dumb enough to think that Princess Anne's marriage would obscure...