Word: empress
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...mattered not that India, which once had bowed to Victoria as Empress, would merely nod to Elizabeth as its "first citizen"; that many of her black subjects in Africa were screaming "Death to all white men" in a riot of restless revolt; that many of her white subjects on the same continent were talking openly of a South African republic under Prime Minister Daniel Malan...
...debate over a succession law as the public awaits word of the baby's gender; in Tokyo. With no male heirs in sight--both Kiko and Crown Princess Masako have so far given birth only to girls--many Japanese have been clamoring to revise the law to allow an empress and subsequently her children to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne, an event Japan has not witnessed in more than two centuries and officially banned...
...Harvard undergraduates gravitate in such large numbers toward economics? Is it a communal fascination with the theoretical work of Malthus and Ricardo, Smith, and Keynes? Could it be a deep interest in garnering the empirical skill set proffered by this empress of the social sciences before departing to a career of more abstractly conceived pursuits? Though I’ve yet to conduct a study on the question, I’d hazard that neither of these explanations is the correct one. I’m rather inclined to side with The Crimson Staff of 1929; most of the roughly...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan, and her childhood friend, urban planner YOSHIKI KURODA, 40; in a small ceremony attended by their families; in Tokyo. In preparation for her new life--it's the first time an Emperor's daughter has wed a commoner--she took driving lessons and practiced supermarket shopping...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, to YOSHIKI KURODA, 40, a city planner and childhood friend; in Tokyo. Sayako loses her royal status by marrying a commoner and will move out of the Imperial Palace to a rented one-bedroom apartment. The former Princess has quit her job as an ornithological researcher to practice her cooking and learn to drive before becoming a housewife. She will pay taxes and no longer receive a royal stipend, although she will be given a lump sum of $1.3 million to start her new life...