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...there will always be an England, let us hope it will always contain people like those in Britons (Aperture; $45), the second collection of group portraits by Photographer Neal Slavin. Posing doggedly for Slavin's immense Polaroid, they make truly royal subjects: club members, drinking buddies, co-workers and choirs, all decked in the regalia of their proudest pastimes and fixed in the postures of their social roles. We see them keeping up appearances in every, sense of the phrase, whether they are the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association or the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, with their staff of almost...
...this work? According to Ghadry, when U.S. arms went to Iran through Israel, the Saudis paid for them. The money went to Adnan Khashoggi, a billionaire Saudi businessman who was acting as a surrogate for the royal family. Khashoggi, in turn, would pay commissions to the Iranian middlemen and give the CIA the book value of the arms for repayment to the Pentagon. Various bank accounts and straw companies were used to conceal the routing of the funds. The same devious channels, according to Ghadry, were used to pour Saudi money into accounts to fund the contras...
...Amendment, originally passed by Congress in 1982 to stop the use of any U.S. funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, and tightened in 1984 to prevent the Administration from using any other country to provide military help to the contras. Many close observers of Saudi affairs doubt the royal family would take the risk of a potential public exposure of dealing with either Iran or the contras...
...Since her unlikely candidacy started gaining steam last year, Royal has had a penchant for saying almost nothing on traditional campaign topics, but launching missiles of iconoclasm where least expected. Earlier this week, she managed the difficult trick of enraging even Canada, when she offered an endorsement of what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting...
...where did the magic go? Ségoléne Royal, the Socialist candidate for France's upcoming presidential elections, seemed bulletproof last autumn after trouncing two opponents with high-powered resumés. But in the two weeks since the governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) affirmed Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as its candidate, Sego is looking aimless and rattled - Sarkozy's poll numbers have surpassed hers, and Socialist advisers are beginning to bicker over how to put the wind back in her sails...