Word: viceroy
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...hunting dogs, "left many weeping wives behind so that his pampered canines could fly with him on his plane." Despite their claims to divine status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
...fact that most of the donor pledges corralled by the U.S. last week came in the form of loans and loan-guarantees. Washington had already acceded to the reality that nobody outside its "coalition of the willing" is going to provide funds to be managed directly by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer, so a separate fund was created under the supervision of the IMF and World Bank to attract grants. But loans, presumably, would be a different matter. Those who loan money to others expect to be repaid, and therefore they need to know that the entity undertaking to repay...
...Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer...
...Shiite leaders, such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, have refused until now to even meet with Bremer, but they enjoyed cordial relations with De Mello - and the UN man was credited with having persuaded some key Shiite figures to serve on the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by the U.S. viceroy...
...elimination of Saddam's widely feared sons will be a dramatic blow against the resistance that has plagued the U.S. occupation forces: Paul Bremer, Washington's viceroy in Baghdad has long insisted that the capture or killing of Saddam and his sons would break the psychological grip of the old regime on many Iraqis. Their deaths mark the sharpest signal yet that Saddam isn't coming back, and that he will eventually be found by the Americans. And that message will boost the confidence of those Iraqis inclined to work with the occupation authority, while demoralizing Baathist resistance fighters...