Word: servant
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...words like luminous. Yet her charms have never been employed for big-budget Hollywood movies, despite an illustrious resume that includes 1998's Hilary and Jackie (for which she received a second Oscar nomination) and a juicy bit in last year's Gosford Park as a rough-edged servant who drops her knickers for the master of the house...
...reports that a letter was sent from an unnamed widowed Egyptian Queen to the Hittite King in what is now Turkey, pleading that one of his sons be sent south to marry her. The writer's fear was that she would otherwise be forced to wed one of her "servants." Ankhesenamen, as onetime Queen, would surely have seen Ay as a servant. Some people, including Cooper and King, believe that an ancient ring bearing her and Ay's names indicates that the two were in fact married, a move that would have legitimized Ay's Pharaohship...
...send a very powerful message to our people that we should learn to live in peace together and work hard to reconstruct our country," he says. "It's not a pleasant thing to be rated as trailing all the other countries in the world." When Kabbah, a former civil servant and longtime U.N. official - the U.N. Development Programme, where he worked for 21 years, publishes the report that listed Sierra Leone last - was first elected in 1996, the country was mired in a civil war whose hallmark was rebel soldiers' tendency to hack off the limbs of their victims. Kabbah...
There he is, in the background of paintings, schoolbook illustrations, celebratory films. He's hauling a boat, cradling a rifle, looking on. He is often bare-chested. No one is speaking to him. Frankly, his presence is a little embarrassing. He is York, William Clark's body servant--slavery's version of a valet...
...story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris ("desert flower" in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather. She landed in London as a servant to wealthy relatives and worked as a cleaner at McDonald's before becoming a supermodel, a James Bond girl, a U.N. special ambassador and a best-selling writer. Her second book, Desert Dawn, was published in Britain last week. Hard to believe? Only until you meet Dirie. A warm but somehow elusive woman...