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...glum castle, Mary Queen of Scots schemes to replace her cousin Elizabeth on the English throne - if, of course, she can avoid the death sentence everyone is urging the Virgin Queen to impose on her. In Whitehall, Walter Raleigh is spreading his coat over the mythical puddle so his sovereign will not dampen her dainty feet as she strolls toward her distinguished destiny. Meantime, spies and assassins scuttle through the corridors of power, the torture chambers are booked solid for the foreseeable future and Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, playing a woman 17 years her senior) allows herself to be smitten...
...clerk for Rehnquist in 1980, Roberts was assigned to conduct research for an article on the power of a Chief Justice to set the court's tone. He found an essay in which Frankfurter scoffed at the very notion. Every Justice "is his own sovereign," Frankfurter wrote; you can't expect Justices to get along just because a new chief smiles at them. Rehnquist's article concurred...
...boats to offset the costs of yearly maintenance, which can run from $1 million to $4 million, as well as to keep their staff in top shape. "The best crew is a crew that is always working together as a team," says Mark Mitchell, owner of the motor yacht Sovereign. A well-trained staff knows how best to define what guests want out of a charter. They know how to quickly tweak itineraries and deal with demanding requests. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a resort that has the ratio of staff to guests that a charter has," says...
...this is more than just an argument over semantics. Under Executive Order 13224, the U.S. government can disrupt financial assets of any terrorist organization. Conducting such acts against a sovereign state is essentially an act of war. Labeling the IRG in such a way is potentially tantamount to imposing clandestine unilateral sanctions on Iran using a legal loophole...
...Chinese nor American opposition has done much to dampen Taiwanese enthusiasm for the referendum. On Saturday, more than 100,000 people took to the streets in the southern port city of Kaohsiung to rally in favor of the referendum and seemingly in support of Chen's vision of a sovereign Taiwan. More than 3,000 Taiwanese expatriates attended a second protest outside U.N. headquarters in New York City. A poll released earlier this month by a Taipei-based think tank found that 47% of respondents disagreed with the U.S.'s position that the referendum was a step towards independence; three...