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...royals queue up at bus stops or elbow their way through soccer crowds? Would the British really relish a workaday monarchy like Denmark's? The problem with all solutions to the current problems of the royals is that their historically entrenched tradition is profoundly irrational. Early in Victoria's reign, Walter Bagehot wrote of the crown, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Sometime, probably not very far in the future, the British people will have to decide whether they want the magic or the daylight, since having both at one time is simply...
...under previous one-party regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over...
...time scorer and three-time Most Valuable Player has called it quits. "I'm excited to be going to a new life," said Bird, who will move to the Boston Celtics' front office. "But I'm going to miss this life." Celtics' fans were in mourning; during the reign of Bird, they had been treated to three world championships...
Some who lived through the "reign of terror" under executive editor A.M. Rosenthal say that Sulzberger's single greatest achievement has been instituting a philosophy that values people almost as much as their copy. "Fear is not the best way to get things done," he says. This works better on the business side, he admits, where he has been able to wipe out layers of middle management, and less well on the editorial side, where executive editor Max Frankel joked on the day Sulzberger was named publisher that the newsroom would remain a monarchy...
...various times since the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Castile has tried to take Catalunya over and suppress its speech. Francisco Franco banned all publishing and teaching in Catalan, hoping to prevent his subjects from thinking separatist thoughts. But obdurately, Catalan survives, and now that separatist dreams have faded -- Jordi Pujol, the president of the autonomous region of Catalunya, dropped the separatist plank from his party's platform last October -- it is the language that remains the focus of Catalunya's enthusiasm for cultural distinction...