Word: royals
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...doesn't officially begin at Greenwich, but don't tell that to anyone in Britain. The London borough, home to the Royal Observatory and located right smack on the 0[degree] meridian, will mark the stroke of midnight, Greenwich mean time, by shooting a green laser beam into the sky and bouncing a satellite signal around the world that will set off international celebrations...
...life per square foot, no other place matches it. Preserving that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan's 16 miles of southern coast...
EDWARD --Sometimes wears ermine --Joined the Royal Marines at 22 --Could be a King, but probably won't --Produced, wrote and stars in Crown and Country --Ditto
...political position and the speaker in question--with the presence of everyone from Hillary Clinton to Boutros Boutros-Ghali to a whole slew of figures whose names on those red and beige Institute of Politics posters need to be preceded by phrases like "His Majesty" or "Her Royal Highness." (The Dalai Lama was actually billed as "His Holiness," which I thought was pretty cool...
...such as building functioning and controllable institutions, such as selecting honest and accountable leaders--rather than in terms of yet another khozyain. Wrote Alexander Pushkin: "It is only when the sacred freedom is firmly coupled with strong law that the people's suffering doesn't lie over royal heads." I wonder if we will ever really read and understand our beloved national poet? Or will we only keep reciting him mindlessly while standing in long lines waiting for sausage? But to achieve that understanding, we must first change our moral fiber. I wonder if this can ever happen...