Word: mediterranean
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...seems, is preparing for a luxurious retirement on the French Riviera. According to European sources, Yeltsin is the future landlord of the 100-year-old Chateau de la Garoupe, a rambling villa set on 24 acres of fragrant gardens, olive trees and terraces that run down to the Mediterranean. Although the place needs a bit of work, it still cost nearly $8 million. Rumored buyers include Russian businessmen eager to please Boris...
There are some examples of successful near-absolute monarchies. For instance, in Monaco, Prince Rainier reigns supreme and uncontested, his principality in the spotlight since he married the late Hollywood actress and Hitchcock muse, Grace Kelly. In this tiny Mediterranean country the size of New York City's Central Park, to be Monegasque is to lead a tax-and-crime-free life. Monegasques appreciate the fact that it is only the Monegasque princely family that keeps Monaco intact since once the family dies out, Monaco reverts to France...
...have been as short a love story as it appeared. Fayed had probably started falling for Diana the same time the rest of the world did. On July 29, 1981, Fayed left a yacht on the Mediterranean and booked a suite at a luxury hotel in Monte Carlo to watch television--the wedding of Charles and Diana. "I got bored," says a friend with him at the time, but "Dodi watched the whole thing, from beginning to end." And now, suddenly, Diana was in his life, at a time when he needed her. "I don't think he would have...
...princess undoubtedly craved the cocoon made possible by Dodi's family planes and mini-palaces, as well as the glamour of his Ritzy life. And after years in a family repelled by emotion, here was a family driven by it, whether in its public vendettas or in its private Mediterranean moments. To embrace all this, Diana, having left one dynasty that had used her, was ready to enter another. The Fayeds and she would find redemption together...
...rather, a series of overlapping civilizations--influenced by Africa, Arabia and the Sahara as well as by Egypt. Moreover, many scholars believe these Nubian kingdoms hold even more clues to the origins of African culture than does Egypt, which, because of its unique position abutting Asia and the Mediterranean, is regarded by many archaeologists as having developed independently from the rest of the continent...