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...Gore was there, of course, in his role as Goliath. He was granted the prime speaking slot, and drew the biggest audience. And he arrived with an entourage so large and so befitting an heir to the throne -- complete with communications aides, speech writers and press secretaries, image consultants, policy experts and Secret Service agents -- that it seemed a deliberate effort to taunt his Democratic rivals, a dare to take him on. In his speech, he ignored them completely, choosing instead to tangle with Texas Gov. George W. Bush, upon whom Republican hopes for victory in 2000 have quickly come...
...swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power. Feminists will delight in seeing a romantic, frightened young woman take charge of her own (and her nation's) destiny. Historians will happily debate the sexy melodramatics with which the Protestant-Catholic conflict over the throne is stated. In short, this darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex movie ought to have many constituencies, even in the age of Ally McBeal. The largest of them may turn out to be moviegoers hungry for rich, old-fashioned historical spectacle and eager to revel in the subtle grace with which Cate...
...original form, Richard III is essentially a play about a man killing his way to the throne and then being killed himself by the rival claimants. The way each character rises up in life before being assasinated creates the tragedy that makes the play a great work. It is entrancing to watch the plot tighten around the characters, made easy targets by their incapacity to fathom the extent of Richard's evil...
Yale (6-3, 1-2 Ivy League), which was expected to be one of the main contenders to Harvard's throne before the season started, faces a must-win at Dartmouth this weekend...
...fourth wife, the U.S.-born Lisa Halaby, Hassan's personal life has been conventional. He met his Pakistani wife, the energetic Princess Sarvath, in London when both were 11 and he gave her measles. The two have three daughters and a son Rashid, 19, a potential heir to the throne. Hassan made time for bedtime stories, reading the girls The Scarlet Pimpernel before they were school...