Word: royal
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...Marcel Wanders plate for Royal Tichelaar Makkum ($320; www.tichelaar.nl...
...reasonable to suppose that Heather Mills isn't the world's greatest Beatles fan, but today she might well believe in yesterday. Less than 24 hours after she emerged from London's Royal Courts of Justice to pronounce herself "very, very happy" with her 24.3 million pound ($49 million) divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, she failed in a bid to stop the judge who decided the award from publishing his reasons for doing so. She said she was appealing against publication to protect the privacy of her four-year-old daughter Beatrice, apparently the only positive issue of the less...
...York City. Minghella had also just stepped down as chairman of the British Film Institute, the organization that oversees the British film industry. Minghella may have danced with Hollywood, but his heart still belonged to British film, and his dedication to his home's film industry was given royal recognition when he was appointed Commander of the British Empire...
...Paris, incumbent Socialist mayor Betrand Delanoë added eight points to his razor-thin margin of victory in 2001 - not only winning an outright majority of the city council, but also positioning himself as a favorite in an expected showdown with former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal for the party's leadership later this year. Socialist-led tickets captured France's third-largest city, Toulouse, after 37 years of conservative domination. They also claimed Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne, Blois, Caen, Reims, Metz and Rouen from the right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes...
...infamous "Baghdad welcome," that heart-stopping corkscrew dive that characterized all my previous landings. The maneuver was designed to evade any terrorist attack by surface-to-air missiles, and executed to petrifying perfection by former South African air force pilots flying smaller, more nimble Fokker F-28 aircraft. Now Royal Jordanian Airways is willing to risk using the larger, more cumbersome (and more expensive) A320, it can only mean that the likelihood of a SAM attack has greatly diminished. Reassured, I actually sleep through most of the 75-minute flight, waking in time to enjoy my first "normal" descent into...