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CHARLES SPENCER: It's amazing how often events from our distant past resurfaced in our minds. I was in Tonga, an isolated cluster of Polynesian islands that straddles the international date line while reporting as a foreign reporter for an American television network in the late 1980s. I remember looking out of my hotel window and realizing it was Tuesday and to my left. It was Wednesday, to my good. While there, I talked with Tongan king George Tupou IV. A courtier begged me not to refer to his majesty's 33 stone body right away.