Word: royalities
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...even the non-fab world had been forced to take notice of this all-conquering cultural force. The Beatles had become such a huge British export that they were given a royal award: the Member of the Order of the British Empire, or M.B.E. (They took this about as seriously as anyone might have expected, all four of them firing up a joint in a Buckingham Palace washroom before the ceremony, and Ringo commenting on his M.B.E., "I'll keep it to dust when...
...crew then set off for England to row in the Henley Royal Regatta, where it advanced to the quarterfinals of the Temple Challenge...
Actually there is a glimmer of hope there. The uptick among young initiates has not offset the deaths of the old soldiers, but it is visible. New York's venerable Independent Royal Arch Lodge No. 2 boasts an average member age of about 50 and an unusual concentration of college-educated men. There are brokers, lawyers and journalists with interests running from martial arts to organ music to the Masonic references of James Joyce, explored in black tie over wine and cigars. Says John Chang, 39, a lawyer active in local Democratic politics: "Maybe now that my generation is getting...
Knut Kloster Jr., the former chairman of the Norwegian Cruise and Royal Viking lines, plans to top even that by launching a ship that will be a permanent home for its passengers. The globe-trotting vessel, called World of ResidenSea, will have 286 condominiums when completed in early 2001. Kloster has so far sold 65 units, which go for as much as $6.6 million. And for those who can't get enough Titanic, a U.S.-Swiss partnership plans to build a $500 million replica that will take its maiden voyage on the 90th anniversary of the Titanic...
Maloney is taking his cues from China's bureaucratic stratosphere, where top officials can't spend enough time chatting up Microsoft, Intel, ibm, Cisco and other members of the Net's royal family. "We can barely keep up with the demand for information," he says. In January the Chinese government approved a new series of laws designed to control how citizens connect to the Internet. But although the laws featured the usual restrictive rhetoric, they were clearly designed not to keep the Chinese off the Net but to get them online in an orderly...