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WHERE IS SHE NOW? Jailed for 18 months for staying mum during Starr's investigation, she was pardoned by President Clinton and now is an advocate for the rights of female prisoners...
...mother of Queen Elizabeth II, was, historians will doubtless record, the woman who helped restore the majesty of the throne after the abdication of George's brother Edward VIII in 1936. But the Queen Mother's former subjects will be more likely to remember her as the sprightly Queen Mum who seemed almost a part of everyone's family...
Elizabeth, the Queen Mum, never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...
...images that lodged in the British heart were of the Queen Mum singing gaily as a chauffeur whizzed her through Rhodesia in 1960, pottering around her beloved garden in baggy trousers, following the fortunes of her racehorses on a telephone results service used by bookies...
...past few months, Jiang has impressed the U.S. with his country's new pragmatism. He has remained mum as the U.S. military overthrew the Afghan government and stationed troops in five neighboring countries. China also quietly suffered a dramatic loss of influence over its closest regional ally, Pakistan, which it had earlier helped build a nuclear arsenal. Smaller signs of cooperation passed virtually unnoticed?China did not protest when three Japanese warships escorted the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk from its base in Japan to launch assaults on Afghanistan. China has even surprised the U.S. with a new policy...