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...countrymen, I write to you from Athens, in this the ninth month of the third year of the reign of Emperor Nuntius Minimus, as this wretched place wrestles with its irrelevant conscience over our great triumph in subjugating the Scythians and their leader, Vanitas, our most reviled foe since Vercingetorix...
DIED. IDI AMIN, 80, utterly ruthless former dictator of Uganda; in Saudi Arabia, where he lived a life of luxury in exile with one of several wives and 22 of his children. During an eight-year reign that plunged a prosperous nation into desperate poverty, the onetime military boxing champ used slaughter as a form of statecraft. The son of a peasant farmer and a mother who practiced sorcery, the nearly illiterate Amin joined the British colonial army in 1946. Nine years after Uganda achieved independence in 1962, he led a successful coup, then embarked on murderous campaigns against political...
...plunge in travel to Asia, of course, was the SARS scare; although the World Health Organization has lifted the last of its travel bans to East Asia, news that the virus has been contained hasn't, predictably, received a shadow of the coverage the virus attracted during its reign of terror. Yet the epidemic was only the latest in a long, doleful cortege of P.R. disasters for tourism in Southeast Asia and beyond...
Redd’s quest for the crown—and her reign as Miss Virginia—began at 11:30 p.m. last Saturday, after four days of interviewing, strutting and tickling the ivories on stage...
Things apparently got dicey for Nefertiti sometime after the 12th year of Akhenaten's 17-year reign. She vanished from the historical record about that time. She may have died or, Egyptologists speculate, may have served as co-regent with her husband and after his death, as Pharaoh herself. If so, she ruled under a different name and only briefly, until Tutankhamen took over...