Word: reigns
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...wasn't exactly devastated to learn of Dartmouth's plan to end the long reign of single-sex fraternities and sororities on campus. Despite angry alumni calls and sullen student protests--including the cancellation of all fraternity parties at the school's annual Winter Carnival--the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. Such news might not seem like a big deal at many colleges, but at Dartmouth, whose raucous frat life inspired the movie Animal House...
...upsetting the previously undefeated Crimson, the Tigers won their second consecutive national championship. Their first title in 1998 had ended the Crimson's six-year reign atop the squash throne...
...Elizabeth, which traces the early bumps of the title character's Golden Age reign, Fiennes takes a backseat to the Virgin Queen, Cate Blanchett. Again, Fiennes the philanderer takes on the guise of a lovesick puppy who sacrifices everything for his one true thing. His passionate declarations of loyalty play off nicely against the sweet princess turned ice queen. The cinematographic cop-outs distract from the fluidity of the film, as does the production design, which uses color and shadow to beat the symbolic dead horse. That's the curse of the artsy indie, I guess. The film does have...
...Hassan as crown prince did not elicit too much surprise in Israel. Abdullah has his father's politics and his father's support among the key factions of Jordanian society: the Beduoin tribe that hold the commanding posts in the military. But the predicted success and stability for the reign of the next Hashemite king was only a side-bar to the real feelings on both sides of the Jordan River this weekend: how to say goodbye to an ally who became a trusted leader and a friend to three peoples--Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli...
...King Hussein of Jordan's Reign 24,072,480 minutes