DI NASTIES.(comparison: dynasties of the Bushes and the Windsors)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 25-NOV-02

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November has been such an all-round triumph for the Bushes, what with the President's sweep of the congressional races, the thumping reelection of the President's kid brother to the governorship of Florida, and the fifteen-nil Security Council vote for the President's resolution on Iraq, that the Times decided to give the whole family a promotion. In the Week in Review section of last Sunday's paper, the headline "Flying Colors: Defying Expectations, a Bush Dynasty Begins to Look Real" was superimposed in white against the blue sky of a heroic, page-wide photograph of Air Force One. So it's official. They're a dynasty. They're up there with the Adamses, the Bonapartes, and the Mings.

Meanwhile, in other dynastic news the Windsor family, of London, England, has been having a bad crown day. Annus horribilis has stretched into centuria calamitosa. In the din of an uproar surrounding one Paul Burrell, a butler in the employ of the late Diana, Princess of...

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