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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center announced last week the formation of the first interdisciplinary transplant research center in New England. Anthony P. Monaco, Medawar Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, will be the center’s first director...
There was speculation that Dumas might be jailed last week. But when the judges arrived at his country estate, where he was recovering from abdominal surgery, they left him free on more than $800,000 bail and forbade him to travel to various tax havens such as Switzerland and Monaco, where it is suspected he keeps secret bank accounts. Dumas adamantly denies all allegations--and even claims to have repaid the cost of the boots. In an interview last March, he declared he had "never received a cent" from the Taiwan contract and never wavered in his opposition...
...around. Unfortunately, though, both her anecdotes and her comments, genuine as they are, get tiresome. Too many small, talented beggars and quaint roadside cafes, too many slightly tragic principalities with curious histories litter the pages of this book. The nations and cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany and which were the radical splinter-group...
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...
After his father's death in 1992, Spencer spoke openly in the press about his distaste for Raine, likening her redecoration of Althorp to "the wedding-cake vulgarity of a five-star hotel in Monaco." This, as well as the Lasson episode, was one of the many instances in which Spencer, like the Princess of Wales, used the media to his advantage, despite a long-expressed loathing of its intrusiveness. In fact, after university, Spencer joined the press corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding...