Word: monarchal
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...when governments fall or jobs are lost or a bus breaks down. And indeed, as we have witnessed today and over the past two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church remains quite adept at filling a void even as large as the loss of John Paul II. Replacing an absolute monarch without the benefit of bloodlines is no mean task. Taking an ancient religious rite of passage and turning it into a two-week-long worldwide broadcast spectacle, with the only glitch a few minutes of gray smoke, may indeed require the Holy Spirit on your side...
...suggestion that the Cardinals put forth. It's a reminder, of course, that this is not an election for a four-year term of a leader who will have to contend with political pressures from his peers or governmental balance of powers. It is an election of an absolute monarch for a lifetime term. Big stakes indeed-even for Boy Scouts...
...between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation, but in a rare move by the country's constitutional monarch, King Baudouin refused to accept it. The King's reason: elections would have been in August, when most Belgians are away on vacation...
...eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately as Creeper, and his castle is guarded by two pterodactyl-like birds, flapping, screeching, ever ready to swoop down and carry off the better elements populating this mythical kingdom. Eventually, the evil monarch and his minions find out from our friends where the long-hidden black cauldron lies and set loose upon the world the dreadful army of the dead it contains. "But Daddy," a million tiny voices will ask, "is it going to come out all right...
...DIED. PRINCE RAINER III, 81, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, who, as ruler of Monaco for 56 years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principality into a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung, and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino, and popularizing the mini-state, which has no income tax, as a tax haven for foreign...