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...think you have wardrobe issues? Imagine you're Queen Elizabeth-what do you wear to meet the Pope or Marilyn Monroe? For an easy answer, check out "The Queen's Working Wardrobe: Memories of Royal Occasions 1945-1972," which is on display at Kensington Palace in London through July, 2005. The exhibition features 12 couture outfits worn by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrates Her Majesty's diverse and sometimes quirky style, from the somewhat drab Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform she wore during World War II to the glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to the opening of The Battle...
Sometimes the more ostentatious symbols have been replaced—in Tanzania, though not in Kenya, the white wigs worn by jurists of the Common Law have gone. But for every picture of Queen Elizabeth II that decorated the walls of Tanganyika five decades ago, there is at least one picture of Tanzania’s current leader, the less graceful Benjamin Mkapa, today...
...appeal process is exhausted, Stewart's new life will be no cakewalk. She will most probably spend her five-month sentence at a minimum-security "prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12¢ an hour. "I'm used to all kinds of hard work," Stewart said. "I'm not afraid whatsoever...
SENTENCED. MARTHA STEWART, queen of domestic advice and former ImClone shareholder; to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators over her sale of the company's stock; in New York City (see page...
...tolerance-lite culture. Perhaps Howard, in his constancy and experience - compared with wild man Latham - will seem tired and remote to voters under 40. Already the imagery is revealing. Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch box" quipped former Liberal leader John Hewson) at a pre-school; a statesman who keeps the press at bay behind a barrier at Parliament House but cosies up to the millionaire talkback radio kings for a nice chat. For voters, it's a choice between...