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...upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings," Shakespeare's poetic (and doomed) Richard II prophetically says in the play named after him. "Some have been depos'd," he goes on, some "haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ... all murder'd." But were a modern Richard speaking today, he would more likely talk about the death of kingship-the very idea of a useful, functioning monarchy. The last quarter of a century has seen the number of democracies and republics in the world explode from 40 to about 120. Monarchs, as a consequence, have...
...sad situation when simply stating a dislike for the President gets you booed, boycotted and branded a radical and unpatriotic. With Bush's approval rating down to around 30%, I guess that leaves the other 70% of the nation radical and unpatriotic as well--and the Dixie Chicks in good company...
...remove filaments from the walls. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says a member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, which the French Ministry of Culture set up in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon." The sad fact is that visitors to Lascaux today come to look not for wonder, insight or inspiration. They come to look for fluffy tufts of mold...
University President Lawrence H. Summers received a lengthy and rousing ovation at his final Commencement address Thursday, and declared that when he leaves office in less than a month he will do so with a sad but “full heart...
...have loved my work here, and I am sad to leave it. There was much more I wanted, felt inspired, to do,” Summers said at yesterday’s afternoon exercises for Commencement...