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Did the Queen see The Queen? Andy Harries, the film's producer, seems to think so. "We've heard that she's seen it and she enjoyed it," he said, after the Bafta awards. The Daily Mail quoted one source who claimed, "She thinks it's terrific." But other "royal sources" contacted by The Sun concluded entirely the opposite - that the monarch would find the film too distressing to watch.

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Two hours to cover more than 500 years of history? The documentary "The Dark Ages" gives it a shot, looking back at that bleak period in Europe (between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance, about 500 to 1000 A.D.) when life was so utterly miserable, the good news was that you might die from plague. Producers use both talking heads and re-creations to shine some light on the da...

Stieber, who has visited such places as China, Turkey and Portugal, is adamant about keeping healthy for travel. For a trip to Thailand about seven years ago, she was vaccinated for hepatitis. Before heading to South Africa, she contacted a doctor of infectious diseases, who informed her that she and her husband should have a tetanus booster, be vaccinated against typhoid fever and begin prescr...

Using the skills of a great storyteller, the knowledge of Dark Ages scholars, and bazillions of extras, they explain how the world fell apart over the course of 600 dark years - from 410 A.D. to 1095 A.D.

And while it's all the stuff you learned in junior high, I promise you that learning it the first time was never as much fun as seeing it all re-enacted here.

After 700 contin...

It has been said that if one hangs around long enough, every prediction one makes eventually will come true. That appears to be the case in the housing market, where those who have been predicting a major price decline since the late 1990s finally can strut around and say "Told ya so." 20 Comment(s)

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Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuality "wrong and unusual" in a London news conference attended by his Paris and Berlin counterparts, both of them gay.

Mr. Luzhkov, in the British capital for a meeting of the leaders of Europe's four largest cities, also repeated his opposition to a gay-pride parade planned for May 27 in Moscow. He has called such a march "satanic." Last y...

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TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today said there was no evidence Japan coerced Asian women into working as sex slaves during World War II, backtracking from a landmark 1993 statement in whi...

MARCH 2-4 THEATER: JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Part of August Wilson's 10-play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. 8 p.m. March 2-3; 3 p.m. March 4. Tohill Theater, Bunce Hall, Rowan University, Glassboro. (856) 256-4545.

THROUGH MARCH 14 JAPAN: OMIZUTORI (WATER-DRAWING FESTIVAL). At midnight, a solemn rite is performed in the flickering light of pine ...