Word: kingdoms
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King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan is trying to abolish himself. The enlightened monarch of this tiny Himalayan kingdom, who has introduced such innovations as the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure Bhutan's wealth, is now urging his people to get rid of him. "Monarchy is not the best form of government," he said last month at a stop on his anti-royalty campaign in the northern town of Haa. "It has many flaws...
...liked seeing your savior being sadistically tortured on screen, you’ll love watching Aslan the magical lion’s death and warm, fuzzy resurrection!)The two audiences are even getting their own tailor-made soundtracks. Disney will release “Kingdom of Heaven” composer Harry Gregson-Williams’ score in stores next Tuesday. Nearly three months ago, EMI Music’s Christian Music group issued an additional disc of “music inspired by” the film. That album proudly featured pious acts like Jars of Clay and Steven Curtis...
...artistic direction team (who perhaps unsurprisingly, worked on “Lord of the Rings” and “Star Wars: Episode III”) the computer-animated talking animals, fauns, and centaurs look simply unrealistic in a land that’s more Magic Kingdom than Middle-Earth. In battle alongside these poorly animated beasts, the Pevensie children look awkward, not valiant. The obnoxious Hobbit-sized protagonists have even less acting talent than Elijah Wood and their performances are extremely grating—except for the adorable and honest young heroine, Lucy (Georgie Henley). Lucy?...
...ranges the world from Paris to Brooklyn, with stopovers in London, Beirut, Israel, Spain (or their geographical stand-ins), and it is full of derring-do and suspense. (Best such sequence: a child innocently answers a call on an explosive-laden phone meant to blow her father to kingdom come.) At more than 2 1/2 hours, Munich allows itself time to efficiently develop character, particularly among Avner's team, which is run--mostly from afar--by Geoffrey Rush's hard-assed executive spook. The assassins include a hot-blooded South African hit man played by Daniel Craig...
...Indeed it is - and not just for Washington. Opposition politicians in Germany and the United Kingdom, the two most frequent destinations according to an analysis of flight logs by the Guardian, have already put their fingers on the damned-either-way dilemma of governments who either acquiesced to the secret flights or didn't know about them. "I cannot imagine how something like this should happen without (the government) knowing," thundered Gregor Gysi, head of Germany's Left Party, this week in the Bundestag. "International law has to be used to limit the power of the strongest." The idea that...