SYON PARK, London, 7 August 2004 — There just had to be camels. Beautifully groomed and well-behaved, they gazed at the crowds of onlookers and the unfamiliar landscape created by Capability Brown
MICHAEL Dobson and Nicola J. Watson are the authors of England’s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (Oxford, 2002). It is a guide to the nation’s 400-year obsession with the Virgin Queen.
CHADDS FORD, Pa., 7 August 2004 — In a field in rural Pennsylvania, director M. Night Shyamalan is surveying the remnants of his handiwork, a collection of worn wood and stone houses, forlorn outposts
A wild black stallion with about 20 mares at his side rears his head and stares intently, his body stiff and alert, ears perked. We rein our mounts and freeze in the saddle. For a few moments nothing
BOSTON, 7 August 2004 — In a moment I will provide you with complete details on exactly what has been happening here at the Democratic National Convention (nothing). But first here is an Urgent Code