Word: royalities
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Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time has been a bestseller explaining the cutting edge of astrophysics to those outside the field. Hawking is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences...
...surrounding Hillary Clinton's Senate bid. It has been widely noted how her "listening tour" of New York State resembles the periodic descent of Britain's Queen among the commoners--taking tea, giving chat, laying on hands. Mrs. Clinton evokes the starry-eyed hem touching that one associates with royal visits, and once associated with the campaign of another dynastic candidate, also descended upon New York State in pursuit of its Senate seat. In 1964 excited crowds tore at the outstretched arms of Robert Kennedy, often coming away with pieces of royal raiment...
...ever since it became apparent that the court would absolve the photogs. And then there are the lawsuits. The only survivor of the crash, Diana bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, may sue the Ritz and the limousine company that leased the crashed Mercedes; meanwhile, Diana's family and the English royal family are reportedly considering legal action. But the biggest drama still to come will be from the official British inquest, which could not start until the French criminal investigation was concluded. "It is still unclear whether there will be two separate inquests for Diana and Dodi or a joint inquest...
...roll and the movies, industrial design is one of the great art forms of the 20th century, and cars are the very height of industrial design," says Stephen Bayley, one of Britain's leading industrial-design gurus and the curator of a current exhibition on automobiles at London's Royal College of Art. No product but the car demands such elegance in spite of its complexity. No other consumer commodity is expected to be so exclusive and yet so affordable. So personal. So emotional. "I don't think [Target executive] Ron Johnson, Martha Stewart or I would be able...
DIED. SIR HUGH CASSON, 89, British architect and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts; in London. In 1951 Casson oversaw the construction of London's first major postwar buildings. He later designed rooms at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace...