Word: emperors
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...succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from the neighboring province of Idumea (which included part of today's West Bank), won and maintained his position as the empire's proxy King of the Jews by allying himself successively with Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Emperor Augustus, a dance involving very tricky pirouettes...
...Then it was Great Britain that was the superpower, flexing its muscles across the globe, and imposing its sense of its own destiny on the world. China, however, was proving stubborn, intensely aware of the vulnerability of its borders and equally self-conscious about its prestige. The reigning Qianlong emperor, as part of the process of expanding and consolidating China's borders, had also restricted trade with the Western powers to a small perimeter outside the city walls of Canton. The British chafed at this limitation, and sought a wider zone of commercial operations. They also sought, in vain...
...theaters. One is the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, headed by Sam Mendes, whose film debut American Beauty won him last year's Best Director Oscar. The other is the Almeida Theatre in Islington, steered by director Jonathan Kent and actor Ian McDiarmid - familiar to movie fans as the Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series. These two hotspots have assumed a place-to-be-seen buzz among theater-goers...
...star Geoffrey Rush sadistically lampooned his fellow Aussie Russell Crowe by appearing as a vain over-the-top gladiator, displaying even more legs and obnoxious personality than his compatriot. (Crowe showed up for the event, but not, alas, until after he had been skewered.) James Woods returned as an emperor, referring to his agent "Ten-Percentus." "Chocolat" actor Alfred Molina appeared in a "Traffic" skit and revealed himself as "lower than a drug dealer. I'm a... talent agent." The audience, including many talent agents, laughed somewhat dutifully at that...
...target of those judicial projectiles was Thomas Penfield Jackson, the judge who presided over the Microsoft trial. The reason for the appellate court's displeasure: Jackson's intemperate comments to the press while the case was pending--notably, comparing Microsoft at various points to a French emperor and a D.C. drug gang. Or as Chief Judge Harry Edwards acerbically put it, Jackson's propensity to "run off [his] mouth." The legal system, Edwards said, "would be a sham if all judges went around doing this...