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...city?s payroll and ran up a massive debt. He became perhaps America?s most lampooned politician when he uttered the phrase ?bitch set me up? as officers arrested him for cocaine use during an FBI sting in 1990. Barry served six months in prison and recaptured his throne as mayor from...
...zealotry, was no Utopianist. "Even virtue," he counseled, "has a need for limits." A studious lawyer and vintner from Bordeaux's village of La Br??de, Montesquieu sought no leveling of society. He proposed a system of checks and balances whereby the fiats and whims of France's Bourbon throne were limited by established laws and the countervailing powers of a vital, widely dispersed aristocracy...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of S??o Paolo...
...princess had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder.") The favorite target of the press was the agency, the secretive bureaucracy that micromanages the Japanese royals, which is allegedly concerned that the 41-year-old Masako has given birth only to a daughter, Princess Aiko, who cannot succeed to the throne. The agency has gone so far as to request Emperor Akihito's second son, Prince Fumihito, to have a third child. (Fumihito is the father of two girls...
...direction for them, and in so doing gain the cooperation of those around him." Amid this extraordinary show of public bickering, the government last month announced its decision to create an advisory board to begin considering a change in Japanese law to allow princesses to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne. With battles in the royal family, 2005 could be one of the best ever for Japanese tabloids...