Word: queens
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...described it as "an uproariously improbable set." Built with state-of-the-art technology, including elevators, fire-fighting equipment and water pressure in the bathrooms, the Del was expected by the two Midwesterners who built it in 1888 "to be the talk of the Western world." Indeed, the Queen Anne-style hotel is judged one of America's most beautiful and family-friendly hotels. Some guests arrived in private railcars, and many checked in for a whole season and sent their children to a hotel-run school...
...point, I was called the Queen of Plastic Surgery. I did bring it out of the closet. After I talked about all my tucks and jobs, people opened up about theirs. I would be sitting on the couch on the Tonight Show, and someone would lean over and say, "I just had my eyes done" or whatever. I became the clearinghouse for everyone, because I knew all the answers. The surgeons loved me. I loved demystifying it. Of course, I wasn't an advocate exactly. I think people can get addicted, and it can be abused. But it can make...
...also much more polite. Though stung by slights from Washington in the early weeks of the Bush Administration, the Kremlin has been very discreet. Putin has discussed the Russian car industry and played host to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands but kept mum about George Bush or national missile defense. His Defense Minister, Sergei Ivanov, has taken a tougher line. Although the Kremlin originally signaled a willingness to discuss changes to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Ivanov now implies that there is little to discuss. Adjusting the treaty means destroying it, he warned last week, and Russia does not intend...
...friday-night party was just picking up and, as was the custom in the Nepalese royal family, the only people in attendance were royals: no bodyguards or servants were allowed. Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, offered to pour drinks. The Queen Mother was with her friends in the sitting room; the young crowd hung out around the bar and CD player in the billiards room. Dipendra, however, would quietly retire 45 minutes after the party began. When King Birendra arrived, in good humor and drinking a Coca-Cola, he was ready for some gossip. He was involved in chitchat about cholesterol...
...reasons. Few can understand why a dutiful son would murder his parents and relatives?even over a disapproved marriage plan, the prevailing theory?and Dipendra was known for self-restraint, while his cousin Paras was the allegedly hotheaded one. Suspicions run deep over the fact that the King, Queen, the Crown Prince and his younger brother died, changing the line of succession to another family branch. "There is only one truth and people will have to believe it," says Damodar Gautam, Nepal's former ambassador to the U.S. Nepal can't help itself until the truth is told...