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...fact is, trouble in the monarchy is not a new thing. It is the impatient culture in which it takes place today that threatens its justified existence. Charles II had open liaisons with several mistresses, Edward VII committed adultery with actress Lily Langtry, and of course, Henry VIII had a fondness for head-rolling...
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has committed perhaps the first case of First Lady-sacking since Henry VIII's quadruple hat trick 450-odd years ago. In a television message broadcast Tuesday night, Fujimori withdrew all of Susana Higuchi's responsibilities and privileges in the ceremonial post. And why not? Over the last 2 weeks, his wife -- a presidential aspirant herself -- has accused various ministers of corruption and her husband of "authoritarianism." His comebacks: "disloyalty" and "blackmail." Oddly, there's no talk of divorce. BTW: Henry VIII had six wives: he divorced two, beheaded two, saw one die and died before...
...been proceeding in fits and starts since the mid-1980s at all three companies. Now it is finally starting to work. The evidence is found in a new generation of products: cars like Chrysler's white-hot LH sedans and Ram pickups, Ford's Taurus, Explorer and Lincoln Mark VIII, GM's Cadillac STS, the new Chevy Camaro and the Honda- and Toyota-killer Saturn...
...planning on taking it for threeyears. I felt like by not taking this course, Iwasn't going to graduate," Marx explains. TheMaster said, 'Even with a man who urges himself onin his studies as though he was losing ground, myfear is still that he may not make it intime.' VIII...
...fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...