By conventionally accepted criteria the Dominican Republic has had a dismal career as an independent state. Wretchedly poor, politically and socially primitive, intellectually and culturally undistinguished, it has been flotsam on the great tides of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an object not a subject on the international scene.
After decades as a reporter for The A.P. and The Times, he became executive editor of The International Herald Tribune and a columnist on world affairs.
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Despite having 22,219 solo royal engagements under his belt, Prince Philip will be remembered by most for his comical moments and controversial comments - including his not-so-flattering opinion of Stoke-on-Trent.