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Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...
...there were lots of violent aspects of the culture and lots of horrible executions that seemed torturous because they could last for days, there was very little actual torture even then. And torture in England in this specified definition actually ended in 1640. There were the most tortures under Queen Elizabeth; she wrote the most writs for individual tortures. But there was a sudden turn against the idea of torture so that in the Restoration there was lots of violence but very little torture...
BRITNEY SPEARS may be the queen of pop tartiness, but her new video, From the Bottom of My Broken Heart, is an entirely wholesome affair. Oddly, it took an ex-porn auteur to clean up her act. The clip was helmed by Greg Dark, director of such fare as Devil in Miss Jones 5 and Hootermania. Public exposure of the connection between the ex-pornographer and the already-too-precocious teen singer is making both sides nervous. Though Dark has directed more than 20 music videos, his agent says she is worried that dwelling on Dark's past might prevent...
...Natalie" on telnet and 20 responses appear on the screen. Subtract grad students and faculty and just nine remain. But none is Natalie Portman--for security reasons, she "doesn't go to Harvard." That simple obstacle doesn't stop relentless fans from trying to hunt down Queen Amidala...
...encompassing topic of Star Wars sometimes overshadows the beauty of the braided Queen. Natalie A. Lester '01 contacted one stalker's Internet service provider when he wouldn't stop writing her. "One time there was this little boy really obsessed with Star Wars, not [with] her, and he added me to his 'Star Wars fan club' e-mail list," Lester remembers. "[He] kept sending me all his info on the movies until I begged him to take me off his list...