NEWS LITE : POLLS SHOW BRITISH SUPPORT THE QUEEN.Most Britons do not think Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth, or Elizabeth, may refer to: Living people
Bohemia v. ab·di·cat·ed, ab·di·cat·ing, ab·di·cates v.tr. To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally. v.intr. To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility. the throne to allow her oldest son, Prince Charles Noun 1. Prince Charles - the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) Charles , to become king, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. two polls released today.A MORI MORI n abbr (Brit) (= Market & Opinion Research Institute) → institut de sondage MORI (Brit) n abbr (= Market and Opinion Research Institute) → poll commissioned for the Daily Mail tabloid and GMTV GMTV Good Morning Television (UK) found that 67 percent believe the queen should remain the monarch for the rest of her life, the paper said.The poll also found that Britain is more supportive of the relationship between the prince and his longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles. Only 10 percent said they should split up, the newspaper said. Reports say author's life a tall tale One of author Patrick O'Brian's most inventive fictional works may be himself. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of magazine reports that the purportedly Irish author is in fact an Englishman who began reinventing himself in 1945. Questions about O'Brian's past began surfacing on British television in September, the magazine reports in its Nov. 16 issue, on newsstands today. The writer's U.S. and British editors agree that O'Brian, 83, who has boasted of having an Irish heritage but has lived in seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm in France since 1949, isn't likely to clear up the questions. ``I believe that hell would have to freeze over before you would get any comment from Patrick O'Brian on this,'' said his U.S. editor, Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. Lawrence. His longtime British editor, Stuart Proffitt, agreed. The magazine says O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ in a London suburb in 1914. Following his mother's death when he was 4, he and his eight siblings spent time living with various relatives, possibly in Ireland. After some 1930s works written under his original name, he changed his surname to O'Brian in 1945, for reasons unknown, although his brother Michael, who died in World War II, had enlisted under the name O'Brian. Stepson step·son n. A spouse's son by a previous union. stepson Noun a son of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. Nikolai Tolstoy says the author is very upset about the revelations, but added: ``There is no such thing as bad publicity. It could only sell books.'' Gourmands fighting for food purity The English will kill each other to protect animals. The French fight to the death to preserve the purity of their language. Italians, however, rarely get indignant about anything, except food. Few other nations, for example, have so passionate a grass-roots movement to preserve endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. of cheese and protect vegetable rights. ``Plants have a soul,'' playwright and Nobel prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. winner Dario Fo warned a rapt audience last week at a conference in Turin, Italy, on Biodiversity and Genetic Species on the Verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of Extinction. ``They have feelings. And some are assassins, using poison to destroy.'' Fo is one of the intellectual pillars of Slow Food, a food and wine organization created 13 years ago by an Italian journalist, Carlo Petrini, as an antidote to fast food. Both men were expecting more than 100,000 people to attend Slow Food's Salone del Gusto, a five-day food fair that ends tonight, drawing epicures dedicated to the languorous lan·guor n. 1. Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness. See Synonyms at lethargy. 2. A dreamy, lazy mood or quality: "It was hot, yet with a sweet languor about it" enjoyment of slowly prepared regional delicacies. Petrini became radicalized when he entered the Piazza di Spagna in Rome and smelled mass-produced french fries wafting from the country's first McDonald's. Slow Food was begun by a group of leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left intellectuals disenchanted dis·en·chant tr.v. dis·en·chant·ed, dis·en·chant·ing, dis·en·chants To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive. [Obsolete French desenchanter, from Old French, by politics and disgusted by the fast-food trend. Now with 40,000 members in 35 countries, Slow Food's manifesto warns against ``obsessive worrying about hygienic hy·gien·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to hygiene. 2. Tending to promote or preserve health. 3. Sanitary. matters'' and pledges to preserve such endangered foods as Firiki apples from Greece and Sicilian lattume di tonno, sperm of male tuna. Il Salone del Gusto boasts 300 regional food stands, with free samples, 50 gourmet dinners and 325 workshops on everything from ``Cooking in the Antipodes'' to ``Hungarian Foie Gras and Tokaij,'' (or Tokay, a white wine). Food is not just good at these workshops, it is dripping with history. ``Real iberico,'' a Spanish ham, comes from a breed of pig, Cerdo Iberico, which is the direct descendant of the Mediterranean boar that man began domesticating in Neolithic times. Uncontaminated by any crossbreeding crossbreeding /cross·breed·ing/ (-bred-ing) hybridization; the mating of organisms of different strains or species. crossbreeding hybridization; the mating of organisms of different strains or species, e.g. , raised in the Dehesa, an ancient Mediterranean forest and fed on la bellota, a kind of acorn, the Cerdo Iberico is a kind of ``thoroughbred swine,'' according to Giovanni Pellinghelli del Monticello, a consultant to a guild of Iberian ham producers, who delivered the lecture. Exhausted model checks into clinic Supermodel Kate Moss has checked into a London clinic under an assumed name and is being treated for exhaustion, The Mirror newspaper reported. ``I've been doing a lot of hard work and too much partying,'' the paper quoted Moss, 24, as saying. She checked into The Priory, an expensive private psychiatric clinic in Roehampton, southwest London, last week. ``I wasn't happy with the way my life was going and so I decided to take a step back and assess my life and future,'' she said. ``I want to be totally responsible for myself. And this is the place where I can get the peace and quiet to start the process.'' Sensational stories anger actor Jones Tommy Lee Jones' recent horseback spill during a polo match didn't hurt as much as the press coverage he got. Before the extent of his injuries - which proved to be only bumps and bruises - were known, some reports made the Oct. 3 accident sound more frightening that it proved to be. ``The only thing that's scary is the way the media sensationalized and exaggerated and flat lied about it in order to increase their ratings,'' Jones said in Sunday's (Harlingen, Texas) Valley Morning Star. ``I feel insulted by having been exploited by the media.'' Nolte prefers plots to allure of fame Nick Nolte's path to stardom was a 14-year trek on the back roads of America, acting in plays in small theaters without ambitions for anything greater. Despite his surprise success, he says he hasn't changed much. ``I was chasing the same thing then that I'm chasing now. The story,'' Nolte says in the December-January issue of Movieline magazine. ``I wanted to find the connection between me and the material.'' Nolte, 57, has a history of turning down plum roles in major studio films in favor of risky independent film parts. He continues that trend with his latest movie, ``Affliction,'' in which he packed on 50 pounds to play a booze-bloated abusive father. ``If a script grabs me, I do it. Working on a film should be a life-affirming experience,'' Nolte said. Doherty likes quiet after partying past Given her prima donna past, former ``Beverly Hills, 90210'' co-star Shannen Doherty knew critics would have a field day with her choice to play a witch in her new series, ``Charmed.'' ``I read a couple of them, and of course, nobody can be original,'' Doherty, 27, says in the Nov. 16 issue of People magazine. The actress who built a reputation for being difficult on - and off - the set says her days of wild partying are over. ``Going out has become different for me,'' she said. ``Having a nice dinner somewhere with friends is considered going out, whereas it used to start - maybe - with a quick dinner somewhere before heading elsewhere.'' News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1) A mouthful of vinegar, left, and a glass of wine produce pleasant reactions at the Slow Food festival. James Hill/The New York Times (2) Moss |
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