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...father can be wooden and diffident, she is warm and immediate, with a face that looks better without makeup. When her father reached out to shake her hand at her May law-school graduation, she pulled him into a hug. Gore may be known to some as "Prince Albert," but his eldest child is known for never putting on airs. She's the kind of person who, Michael Kinsley, editor of the online magazine Slate, recalls, did not mind doing scut work as an editorial assistant...
DIED. ABRAHAM PAIS, 82, physicist and science historian; in Copenhagen. After surviving Nazi persecution in Holland, Pais conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Later in life he won broad acclaim for his biography of Albert Einstein and essays on other scientists...
...this town because people think you run this town," Gabriel Byrne tells Albert Finney's gang-boss character in "Miller's Crossing." The same was true, in the end, for Chile's General Augusto Pinochet. While the mass torture and killing of opponents that accompanied his seizure of power in the coup of 1973 was very real, the immunity from prosecution he'd awarded himself upon stepping down in 1990 was sustained only by an illusion of power. And that illusion was finally shattered Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court stripped the former dictator of his immunity, opening...
...Concorde victims, are in shock. The six couples and one child who died in the crash were all part of a group of 20 friends who regularly went on holiday together. They had booked the $11,000 luxury trip at the local travel agency Clemens. "It's incomprehensible," says Albert Kuenzel, one of the agency's employees. "We are deeply moved. Many [of these people] were regular customers, most of them of retirement age." His colleague Christian Stattrop adds in a tired voice: "The Concorde was supposed to be a special tidbit for the travelers. When we heard about...
...personality, difficult to grasp in American terms, seems perfectly coherent and natural if transplanted north of the 48th parallel. Indeed, as the Canadian Theorem settles into the imagination, one begins to wonder if there may have been some switched-at-birth scenario years ago that landed the infant Albert far south of the Canadian border, all the way down in Tennessee, while, at the same time, a tow-headed changeling from the chigger latitudes wound up in a snowbank in the Haliburton Highlands...