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...officials earlier this month complaining that their daughter was made to pay for clothing alterations and her own victory party. Furthermore, they claimed they themselves had been treated rudely. Their concerns drew only a fixed smile from Katie, who issued a statement saying she was perfectly content with her reign. So it seems Miss Americas are so real, they even have parent issues...
...Kingdom was in when Abdullah gradually began taking over following King Fahd's stroke in 1995. Custom dictated that Abdullah, as heir apparent, take the helm; the King, now 80, still appears for ceremonial functions but is too frail to run the country. During Fahd's 20-year reign, government spending as well as Saudi births soared, while oil revenues declined from $40 a barrel in 1980 to about $20 today. Fighting off Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War also set the Kingdom back $60 billion...
...else" meant, first, an official warning from the E.U. Commission: "Achtung, you are getting too close to the target. Mend your ways - now!" Second, it meant heavy financial penalties if the limit was breached. Thus, Teutonic discipline would reign from Cork to Calabria, Portugal to the Polish border. Back then, nobody imagined that Germany would ever act as fox in charge of the chicken coop. But this is precisely what is happening...
...reign of Felix P. Johnson ’03 as the self-proclaimed “king of blackjack” was short-lived. Johnson was up $1,100 at a table in the Montreal Casino over intersession when he exclaimed, “I’ve got this game figured out. I just can’t lose money at this table.” His hubris seems to have brought the wrath of the gambling gods upon him; after three more hands, Johnson ended up down $2,800. Having lost all his cash and maxed...
...their part, Japan's top officials eagerly participated in the cultural pillaging, amassing enormous personal collections. When the first Governor General, Ito Hirobumi, was assassinated after a four-year reign, he owned more than 1,000 pieces of celadon. The third Governor General, Masataka Terauchi, assembled 1,855 works of calligraphy, 432 books and 2,000 pieces of celadon, mirrors and other artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what...