Word: monarchical
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...original, Leonidas (Phantom of the Opera's Gerald Butler) goes to the swinish holy men, the Ephors, for permission to wage a defense against the million-man army of the Persian monarch Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, from Lost). The oracle waffles, but Leonidas, saying he's just going out for a stroll with his private guards, leaves his wife Gorgo (The Brothers Grimm's Lena Headey) and leads his loyal band to their desperate and storied destiny. He might have triumphed, if the homunculus Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan, from British TV) had not betrayed the Greeks and told Xerxes their strategy...
...behind a string of rebuffed suitors-and for good reason: upon her death in 1858, coroners discovered that she was in fact a he. Rampant speculation about de Lange's true identity prompted the publication of more than a few "histories" unmasking the transvestite socialite as the last Bourbon monarch, still in hiding...
...government would not negotiate with the insurgents in Thailand's south, preferring a military solution. You have adopted a more conciliatory approach. Yet violence persists. Why? SONTHI: With 99% of the population down south, we are trying to instill a sense of patriotism, a love of country and of monarch. The remaining 1% are the perpetrators. Our troops are seeking out these groups; we will try to bring them in using a political approach, a soft approach. But if that fails, then we will use another...
...Blossoming Monarch The popular fascination with British monarchs was underscored last month when Helen Mirren won Golden Globe awards for her portrayals of Elizabeth I in a TV mini-series of the same name and of Elizabeth II in The Queen, in which she conveys the aging sovereign's emotional complexity. TIME profiled the youthful Elizabeth II in the Jan. 5, 1953, Woman of the Year cover story...
...only surprise to emerge from the summit was the news that it was al-Maliki who decided not to attend a Wednesday dinner with Bush and King Abdullah. Analysts say the Iraqi Prime Minister, a Shi'ite, doesn't trust Jordan's Sunni monarch and did not want to discuss sensitive issues with Bush in Abdullah's presence. Home to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi immigrants, including many of al-Maliki's political enemies, Jordan is unlikely to forget this snub in a hurry...