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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Brits and pseudo-Brits, in sum, have lost this franchise. If you're a casting director looking for a voice whose very timbre communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons. The reasons aren't hard to speculate about. The roots of this development go back at least to the 1930s and Paul Robeson's singing "Ol' Man River" in Showboat. The therapeutic notion that suffering confers dignity and authority has spread just as the suffering of African Americans over generations has become universally acknowledged. Above all, black American ministers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama and the Voice of God | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...haven’t received our secretaries, our sexy secretaries, or our sexetaries, we did get the glass-bottomed hot-air balloon, the collected works of Afroman, and a commemorative photo with Registrar Barry S. Kane. Also, we received that machine which turns pennies into flattened pennies with our Queen Drew Faust’s image pressed on them, and in exchange for 10,000 Faust-marks sterling, UHS has promised to stop asking Vinnie if he’s pregnant, or how that Faust-mark got into his colon before they will treat him. But now, in order...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Two Men of Letters Ponder the Press | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...knowledge of the Army is amazing for a grandmother." - On the Queen. Times (London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Harry | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Harry learned of his Afghanistan deployment directly from the Queen, during a weekend visit to Windsor Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Harry | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Granny, I've got to go. Send my love to the corgis and Grandpa. I've got to go...God Save you, yeah, that's great." - Imitating a call to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, on the same 2006 video that captured his controversial racial remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Harry | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

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