Word: tiara
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...challenger, you want to point out everything that’s wrong,” Decker says. “But the truth is, according to polls we’ve conducted, most people feel good about the way the city is run.”Tiara Quinn, one of Decker’s god-daughters and a veteran campaigner of 10 years, wields a roll of stickers for distribution among the Saturday throng.“My mom calls me the mayor-in-waiting,” Quinn announces proudly. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman...
...didn't flirt, cajole or beg us to like her; she just coolly, competently insisted that we respect her. Now, ankle-bracelet free, she's launched a new daytime show, Martha, and a new Martha Stewart: vulnerable, self-deprecating, coquettish and fun. She jokes about prison! She wears a tiara! Publicizing her new edition of The Apprentice, the media mogul and notoriously demanding boss now swears to anyone with a microphone that she hates firing people. One excruciating morning, she even rapped--rapped!--with hip-hop star Diddy, who seemed to have no idea how to react to his shimmying...
...Chapel at Windsor. After a walkabout in the town, the Queen repaired to Windsor Castle for lunch, then drove to Buckingham Palace to watch 6,000 schoolchildren sing "Happy Birthday" and wave some 120,000 daffodils. Then the birthday Queen changed into an evening gown and her favorite diamond tiara for a gala "Fanfare for Elizabeth" at Covent Garden, featuring the likes of Placido Domingo, Gelsey Kirkland and a special ballet, created by Sir Frederick Ashton and based on an incident from the Queen's childhood. A grand start to be sure, considering the "official" bash won't come until...
Displaying her bejeweled tiara and regal bearing, QUEEN ELIZABETH II greeted George W. Bush at a formal state dinner last week, noting, "I have welcomed no fewer than seven of your predecessors." Her reign began in 1952, 23 years after the first of her six TIME cover appearances...
...last month after a Nigerian journalist suggested the Prophet Muhammad might have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made brief mention of the violence that preceded this outcome, saying, "Our thoughts go out to the families that suffered." Akin, who plays the flute, added, "I think...