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...word queen, the first thing that comes to mind is Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Curiously, although most of the world is under the rule of elected people, the vestiges of monarchical cravings are there for all to see in many a society. Otherwise, how could one explain society's fascination with the progeny and close relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya...
...himself and others. "It was a huge slap in the face," says Nott, 20. "They don't hand out this letter that says, 'We want you to get help.' What it says is, 'You've been suspended; you've been barred from campus.'" The letter went on to explain that if he returned to campus, he would be arrested. Rather than contest the suspension, he switched schools and is now suing for compensatory damages. A spokeswoman for G.W.U. says that because Nott's suspension fell within the school's disciplinary system, the wording of that letter may have seemed impersonal...
...admitting it. What we see a lot of are the feathery-light sketches - at first glance they look like gifted doodling - with which be begins his creative process. After that we follow him through sessions with the cardboard model-makers. He keeps looking for something he can?t quite explain, but which might be described as slightly transgressive - a shock to conventional expectations - but he?s not impatient, never in mastermind mode. He chuckles, tells little anecdotes, draw on past experience, but also looks for ways to transcend what he?s done before...
...usually rely on pundits to explain a war to me, but does it seem like this war's pundits are prone to exaggeration...
...always evident that the Gulf of Mexico was a sweet spot for cyclones, but it took modern meteorology to explain just why. You need a lot of things to get a hurricane going, most important among them an existing storm with a bit of spin to it wedged between warm ocean water and a colder band of air above it. Locate all that at least 300 miles north or south of the equator--where the rotation of the Earth's slightly narrower circumference exacerbates the spin of the storm--and you have everything you need to sustain a hurricane...