Word: monarchal
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...accented English. The interview, it seems, will have to wait. He's wearing a metallic gray muscle shirt, navy running shorts, white socks and a pair of emerald Nikes. The thin crescent of a new moon is hanging over the medieval city of Marrakech. Morocco's 36-year-old monarch is ready...
...King is attached to his three sisters and brother, the latter being next in line until the unmarried monarch produces an heir. (While Moroccans anticipate a royal wedding, details of the King's social life are closely held by the palace and his friends.) Old friends now in key positions may kiss his hand during working hours, then kick back as former high school buddies at night. He's working on ways to get together with his close friends and fellow Arab rulers King Abdullah II of Jordan and Emir Hamad of Bahrain; he hasn't met Syrian heir Bashar...
From Morocco, SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME's roving Middle East correspondent, sends an up-close look at King Mohammed VI. Not only did MacLeod sit down with the young monarch for the first royal interview, but he moved with the King as well, flying and driving about with him. Writer and King even went for a jog together. Says MacLeod of the Moroccans: "This is the first major political change these people have had in their lifetimes...
...have gathered, Americans will heap advice on pretty much anyone who'll listen. And since this is a free country (perhaps you've heard the rumors), I thought I'd take this opportunity to offer up a few sage words to the man who would be the monarch of a washed-up, erstwhile "Empire...
...face lately," wrote Examiner columnist Rob Morse after spending three days in the courtroom listening to embarrassing revelations like the horse trading with Brown. "The San Francisco Examiner is dying, and it can't even die with dignity." William Randolph Hearst, who once dubbed his paper "the monarch of the dailies," would probably agree...