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...surprising number cried good riddance to the 40-acre Regent's Park facility, which was established by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1828 for the "introduction of curious subjects to the animal kingdom." Janet Fookes, head of Parliament's animal-rights committee, said closing the zoo would be a "major step forward for animal welfare," while Will Travers, director of the anti-zoo campaign Zoo Check, argued that "keeping animals in captivity for entertainment" could no longer be justified...
...three women, Chamorro is the epitome of the contemporary queen regent: benign, motherly and devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...Louvre. What he saw comes out in his work, in an unpretentious and conversational way, in the poses of figures quoted from all manner of old masters and antique statuary. It even pervades the many pornographic drawings he did to stimulate the jaded appetites of the Prince Regent, which are not included at the Frick...
Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (Warner Bros., 1984). Not only the best rock sound track ever written, Purple Rain is the most contained and passionate work to come from this protean regent...
...August press release, White said the plan had been presented to him as a "fait accompli" by O'Malley and another Regent. He called it "personally and professionally objectionable and intolerable" that he was not consulted on the decision, which educators say would severely weaken the Baltimore campus...