Word: monarchal
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...once was a rather shy and indecisive young princeling, installed on his throne by the foreigners who had forced his humbly born father to abdicate. He became an enormously wealthy monarch, Shah of Iran, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, who dreamed of creating an economic and military superpower that would recall the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. He developed an imperial ego to match his vision, placing his crown on his own head like Napoleon, dismissing all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics" and boasting that "nobody influences me, nobody...
...Shah know? He told TIME in 1976 that "we don't need to torture people any more," implying that torture had in fact been practiced earlier. In any case, as an absolute monarch he obviously was responsible for the actions of his own security forces...
...reflective moments, the deposed monarch is bitterly angry. Immediately after he left Iran, he told President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, where he made his first stop, that "my advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people...
...counter-wall posters calling on the government to bring Stanley Kaplan to China so they could learn "to cram more efficiently." The Party Central Committee on Education is reportedly sending a delegation to Harvard to study the feasibility of importing other Western educational methods into China, including "Monarch notes, all-nighters, and reading periods...
...Shah's doctors include such experts as Physician in Chief Hibbard Williams, Parasitologist Benjamin Kean, who visited the ailing monarch in Mexico, and Cancer Therapist Morton Coleman. They concede that if they have erred, it is on the side of conservatism. Robert Armao, an adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival...