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Despite all the media attention she commanded throughout her life, Jackie never lost her regal bearing, her effortless dignity. Her enduring grace was one of the main reasons journalists found her so endlessly fascinating, and so entirely unforgettable. Says Angelo: "To the end -- too soon, too soon -- Jackie was a class...
...politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king he dethroned and executed...
...dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets of Johannesburg. Even today, at rallies or meetings, the poorest supporter of the A.N.C. feels he has the right to greet and address his leader...
...woman who cleans rooms in the Harvard Clubmakes $120 less per week than a woman who cleansrooms across the street at the Regal Royal Hotel,"Turchiano said. "And [the Harvard Club managementdoesn't] want to give her a pay increase? It'soutrageous...
...already told you, blockhead, people outside of Harvard don't comp. But I'm glad you're staying and graduating. And not only will you get a crimson A.B., but you'll pick it up dressed in a regal crimson robe. Others wear boring black robes, but Harvard is not only wise but also fashion savvy. Crimson your robe shall...