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...wintry doubt. The British, as weary and discouraged as the rest of the world in 1952, saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future. Her dramatic flight from a vacation in Kenya at George VI's death to take her place at the head of the royal family beside the Queen Mother and revered Queen Mary gave the British spirit a lift even in the midst of their bereavement...
...course, we mean her breakout role in 1968's Rosemary's Baby, in which devil worshippers covet her unborn child. On June 6, Farrow revisits the thriller genre as Mrs. Baylock, the sinister nanny to Damien, played by SEAMUS DAVEY-FITZPATRICK, 8, in a remake of 1976's The Omen--also starring Julia Stiles and Liev Schreiber. "I'm not sure why everyone loves being scared," says Farrow. "But it worked for me--and Stephen King...
...Ordinary citizens guided assassins to the homes of their neighbors. Iraqis like Isam al-Rawi, a Baghdad University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded. "I have to be ready for anything," he says. For him, the decapitation of the mosque in Samarra was an omen of doom. "I said to myself, 'This is it. The Shi'ites are going to go mad. This is the start of the civil...
Tribe’s statement could be a positive omen for Alito, given that Tribe has previously played a key role in blocking a conservative judge from gaining a spot on the high-court bench...
...Friday night, Rice and her party returned to the Baghdad airport in darkened military Blackhawks. The city lights twinkled below. In fact, from the air it looked like any other Middle Eastern City. Rice's aides pointed out that semblance of normalcy as one more hopeful omen-though her entourage was unable to venture beyond the heavily guarded Green Zone, and even while they were there, a shooting attack o the embassy of Oman claimd two lives...