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...SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and prince; as King of Cambodia, three weeks after his 81-year-old father, Norodom Sihanouk, abruptly announced he would abdicate; in Phnom Penh. Sihamoni, who was educated in Prague and spent most of his adult life in Paris, was the center of a spectacular ceremony involving 52 Buddhist monks and was crowned after eight silk-robed courtiers carried him into the royal palace, where he and his father had been held for three years under the Khmer Rouge...
ENTHRONED. . NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and prince; as King of Cambodia, three weeks after his father, Norodom Sihanouk, abruptly announced he would abdicate; in Phnom Penh. Sihamoni, who was educated in Prague and spent most of his adult life in Paris, participated in a spectacular ceremony involving 52 Buddhist monks and was crowned after eight silk-robed men carried him into the royal palace, where he and his father had been held for three years during the reign of the Khmer Rouge...
...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...
...goal of the CLC not to allow another error of this nature to occur. This year’s CLC is working with a budget and concert/comedian allocations set by last year’s Council. While I have confidence in the Concert Commission to deliver a spectacular Bob Dylan show, fiscal responsibility dictated that our committee not commit returns from those shows prematurely. It is our belief and hope that money generated by those events will allow further HoCo allocations. As a HoCo Treasurer, I have tremendous appreciation and enthusiasm for the value and work of House Committees...
...toned down the dramatic multiple-attack scenario, which the intelligence community "no longer believed to be valid," says the official. The CIA's initial report conflicted sharply with assessments by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security that al-Qaeda is no longer able to mount synchronized spectacular events. In fact, fears of a pre-election attack have eased as an all-out push by law-enforcement and intelligence officers has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S. "It's about as quiet as it can possibly be," says a top counterterrorism official...