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DIED. Charlotte Aldegonde Elisabeth Marie Wilhelmine, 89, beloved Grand Duchess and constitutional ruler of Luxembourg from 1919 until 1964, when she abdicated in favor of her son Grand Duke Jean, the present head of state; at Fischbach Castle near Luxembourg City. Chosen in a special post-World War I plebiscite to replace her German-leaning older sister, she tended to her largely ceremonial duties with intelligence, charm and a lack of pomp. During World War II, her radio broadcasts from exile in Great Britain did much to build morale. Afterward, she helped guide her tiny principality...
...maid, for instance, speaks English but lapses into Spanish for basic words the gringo audience will be able to understand: words like “sí” and “señora”. This particular subplot’s conclusion has lily-white Jean learn to appreciate her helpful Mexican servant with an insipid, cringe-worthy character reversal that basically materializes out of thin...
...burden of the panorama of American ethnic tensions, needs his perfunctory Muslim character. And I guess they had to do something with Sandra Bullock after they cast her. Still, one wonders if the movie might not be better without the half-baked story lines of Farhad and Jean...
...advanced significantly since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to prohibit discrimination against disabled people and guarantee access to public buildings. "It's obvious we have to do something now because we are very much behind other countries, notably the Nordic countries and the U.S.," says Jean-François Chossy, a deputy in France's National Assembly, who sponsored a bill in February that prevented the deadline for disabled access from being extended beyond 10 years. "We are very late...
...have been the majority assessment. The Pope was wildly popular among the faithful in Africa and Latin America, whose growing numbers of Catholics constitute the church's long-term future. Along with an increasingly confident generation of conservatives in the West, they would affirm the assertion by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, a former Vatican Foreign Minister under John Paul, that "in this crazy world, he is the only moral reference." Then, too, a remarkable number of fans came from other creeds. The Rev. Billy Graham said, "He'll go down in history as the greatest of our modern Popes...