Word: heir
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...Paul Sartre and a group of Maoist intellectuals [an error occurred while processing this directive] launched their journal in the aftermath of the 1968 Paris riots, Libé - as the left-wing daily paper is dubbed - appears close to death. The title's unlikely major shareholder, the aristocratic banking heir Edouard de Rothschild, has given a joint staff-management committee until this Wednesday to present its plan to save the title. The board will consider this plan along with two other ideas, one devised by Rothschild and the other by Edwy Plenel, a former Le Monde editor who hopes...
...Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir" [Sept. 18], as if that were actually within her control. The only failures here are in your demeaning statement that this is her one traditional duty and in forgetting that it was her husband Prince Naruhito who determined the sex of their child, a daughter. Blame him! Peter Basmajian Hong Kong...
...lived in Japan for 30 years, so I was not surprised at the lack of details from the imperial court pertaining to the conception or birth of the royal heir. But I was perplexed and disappointed that TIME echoed the themes of Princess Kiko's "miraculous pregnancy" and the birth of a "miracle boy" with as much awe as if they were an immaculate conception and a divine birth. I expected TIME to report the factual aspects of such joyous news. Dolly Koghar Bangkok...
...laws in order to protect ourselves makes us little better than the maniacs who seek to destroy our civilisation. Paul Jacobi Obermarchtal, Germany Of Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's Princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir" [Sept. 18], as though that were actually within her control. The only failures here are in your demeaning statement that that is her one traditional duty and in forgetting that it was her husband Prince Naruhito who determined the sex of their child, a daughter. Blame him! Peter Basmajian Hong Kong
...nationalist cause. A poll taken by the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station late last month found that 40% of its typically liberal audience believe that Russia's national interests justify any hard line on Georgia. Such jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen war worked for Putin back in 1999 - that's if Putin feels sufficiently emboldened to risk reiterating Moscow's neighborhood supremacy by challenging what he sees as a U.S. proxy on his own turf...