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Pretty soon the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive to pay their respects, telling Ryan that his wife and young daughter are safely ensconced in Buckingham Palace and that he is now Sir John, a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. Then the Prince drops by, a little dejected at having been exposed to the world as a helpless victim. "Sit down, goddammit!" Ryan commands and proceeds to put some starch in the heir apparent's spine. Once the American hero recovers, he joins his family at the palace, where a lovely time...
...supporters jumped up with a whoop. His right fist pumping air like a boxer who has just knocked out the champ, the Labor Party leader strode to the podium to accuse the Conservative government of creating a "divided kingdom," with islands of affluence surrounded by poverty. Campaigning in Edinburgh, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded that economic prosperity would "vanish like a dream" if Labor were elected. "Personal abuse," she added disdainfully, "signals panic...
McEvoy is seeing regular duty for the first time in his college career. He served as Blair's back-up during his freshman and sophomore seasons, then took a year off to study in Edinburgh, Scotland, before returning to the squad last year...
...accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
...Canton, gave her the largest reception yet of any foreign trip during her 34-year reign. Trouble was someone forgot to keep her husband Prince Philip, 65, amused. Known as a man with a short fuse and a tart tongue, he saw some students from the University of Edinburgh at a museum in Xi'an. "If you stay here much longer, you will go back with slitty eyes," quipped the royal consort, who went on to call Peking "ghastly" before his wife, in the words of a student, "tried to calm him down." Later, after the incident made the front...