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...whipping boy. It's easy to say 'It's because of Taylor.' After today, there will be no more Taylor to blame." With Blah sworn in, Taylor placed his green presidential sash on the bigger man and hugged him twice. Then Blah sat on the presidential throne, and Taylor took a place with the other African heads of states...
Given the spectacular manner in which Queen Nefertiti lived, you would think she would have equally spectacular accommodations in death. She and her Pharaoh husband lived on the breezy east bank of the Nile in a palace stuffed with throne rooms, pools and spacious courtyards. She was both queen and goddess, serving as a high priest at religious ceremonies and standing by her husband at the Window of Appearances. Yet the culture whose pyramids, mummies and dazzling burial chambers set the ancient standards for funerary grandeur appears to have forgotten Nefertiti. The glamorous young queen died more than...
...quality that transcended her epoch. Her swan neck, flawless face and curvaceous figure seem to justify her name, which means "the beautiful one is come." Her parents are unknown, although some scholars believe her father eventually became Tutankhamen's vizier (a sort of prime minister) and then ascended the throne himself. Nefertiti was chosen as principal wife of young Amenhotep IV, who became Pharaoh in about 1350 B.C. At the time of her marriage, she may have been no older than...
...Minister, by King Gyanendra; in Kathmandu. Thapa replaces Lokendra Bahadur Chapa, also of the NDP, who was unable to negotiate an end to a seven-year uprising by Maoist rebels. Thapa might not be able to do so, either, given the pressure to produce results fast. Since ascending the throne in June 2001, Gyanendra has shown little patience with his Prime Ministers, firing not just Chapa but his predecessor Sher Bahadur Deuba...
...first in any sport since women’s lacrosse in 1990 and Radcliffe’s only national championship other than its previous crew title in 1973. Along the way, the Black and White toppled Brown’s five-year reign atop the Eastern Sprints throne...