Word: monarchical
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...enough to confuse the demonstration with anything from a labor rights march to a municipal zoning dispute. Hundreds of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers protested against abusive recruitment agencies and called for an increase in the minimum wage. In Victoria Park, beneath a dour-faced statue of the British monarch, Falun Gong demonstrators jostled for space with activists urging an end to political pressure on RTHK, Hong Kong's public broadcaster. As the crowd moved steadily through the streets of Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists bearing oversized posters of Chinese revolutionary...
...blow to Saudi diplomacy was reflected in what the Kingdom's top diplomat described as the "stern" messages he has delivered to Palestinian leaders on behalf of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud. The Saudi monarch, Prince Saud explained, is holding Palestinian President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and Hamas exile chief Khaled Meshaal "firmly to the commitment they made in the eyes of God." In mediating the accord, the Saudis argued that Palestinian unity was essential in order to start negotiations with Israel, brushing aside U.S. concerns that Hamas, a radical group that...
...America is the country that obviously people identify with liberty and opportunity, but essentially the ideas of liberty came originally from America's association with Britain. We were the country that pioneered the idea of liberty. The idea that no monarch should be able to rule arbitrarily and that there had to be accountability was actually British, and the American Revolution was built around that idea. In fact both sides in the American wars of independence claimed to be basing their case on the idea of liberty. So the values that Britain and America hold in common are essentially part...
...daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation. You can't overestimate how traumatic the changes in the church would have been." You might get close if you imagined that Monica Lewinsky had been...
Showtime is setting up its hot new Henry at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights, practically monarch-a-monarch with HBO's departing head of state Tony--Soprano, that is. It's a fair pairing; both men have violent but paternalistic leadership styles, endure family troubles and suffer from excessive appetites. But unlike the bathrobed, balding James Gandolfini, Rhys Meyers, 29, will play Henry at an age when he was described by a foreign ambassador as "the handsomest prince in all of Christendom," the 16th century equivalent of being named PEOPLE magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive." The Irish actor...