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...jury at the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, the next six months could be the longest - and most confusing - half-year of their lives. As the coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker wrapped up his opening statement on Wednesday, the men and women tasked with deciding, once and for all, how the couple died finally have a full picture of the road ahead. And it's not going to be smooth...
...begins. The inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed finally kicked into gear on Tuesday, more than 10 years after the couple and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris' Pont de l'Alma tunnel. That's 10 years of investigation, speculation and accusation, all building up to this point. But if Day One is any indication, anyone expecting a real-life episode of Law & Order to play out in London's Royal Courts of Justice will be sorely disappointed. The proceedings started as they are meant to go on: calmly, soberly...
...castle was seized by the Communist regime from the heirs of its original owner, the great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, Princess Ileana. After the Iron Curtain fell, her heirs petitioned for the castle to be returned. Last year Ileana's son, Archduke Dominic von Habsburg-Lothringen, 63, was finally successful. Under an agreement between his lawyers and the government, Habsburg was returned the castle in exchange for an agreement to keep it open as a museum until 2009 and give the government the right of the first refusal if he chose to sell...
...Orange Revolution had began to turn sour, when the Party of the Regions (PR) led by Victor Yanukovych - the Moscow ally who had lost the presidential race to Yushchenko - won a 32% plurality of the votes in the legislative election. The BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, erstwhile flamboyant princess of the Orange Revolution who had been fired as premier by Yushchenko six months earlier, finished second. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) barely made the third place...
...Diana mattered not only to Britain but to the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. Although a princess, she was a humanitarian unequaled in the 20th century who crossed the boundaries of class and race. When I saw her with Mother Teresa, I was struck by the thought that, no matter what walk of life one comes from, sisterly love can be a universal attribute toward which we should all strive. Despite human frailties, she made the world a better place for all. Sonja Rencken, Abcoude, the Netherlands...