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...sarcastically called "the Arab world's contribution to political science." He dubbed it gomlokiya, squeezing together the Arabic words for republic and monarchy. His point was how the new President of Syria had assumed office automatically after his father died, even though the country hadn't been a hereditary kingdom for centuries. Readers also chuckled at the pun: it rhymes with molokhiya, a word for a vegetable soup that Egyptians use with comic effect to describe a mess...
...This vast animal kingdom, a deal involving South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, guarantees the lives of at least 1,000 elephants. Instead of being culled because their habitat can't sustain them, they will be trucked-in the world's biggest managed wildlife migration - from South Africa's Kruger Park to Mozambique...
...William Steig, revolves around the character of Shrek, voiced by Mike Myers, a smelly ogre who enjoys solitude. The isolation of his home, however, is threatened by the power-hungry, midget Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow '67) who forcefully relocates all the fairy tale characters from his theme-park-like kingdom to Shrek's swamp. In order to live in peace, Shrek strikes a deal with Farquaad: if the ogre rescues Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from her enchanted castle, the evil ruler will remove the new members of Shrek's swamp community. Add an incessantly talking donkey sidekick (voiced by Eddie...
...cover 88 years of history, and it all goes at a cracking pace. The best way to see them - at London's Young Vic - is over two marathon days. By the end, as the audience applauds the cast and the cast applauds back, there is no doubt that the kingdom is worth the patience...
...influence the West, either." In the 2000 U.S. census, nearly 7 million people identified themselves as multiracial, and 15% of births in California are of mixed heritage. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Oscar-winning kung fu flick, was more popular in Middle America than it was in the Middle Kingdom. In Hollywood, where Eurasian actors once were relegated to buck-toothed Oriental roles, the likes of Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain and Phoebe Cates play leading men and women, not just the token Asian. East and West have met, and the simple boxes we use for human compartmentalization are overflowing, mixing...