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...Globe also printed speculation that Jiang wanted to visit Harvard to one-up Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui, who visited his alma mater, Cornell University...
Such were the preoccupations of Judge Herve Stephan as he walked with a dozen police investigators into the empty, neon-lit Place de l'Alma tunnel. They converged on the spot where, just 30 days earlier, a black Mercedes S-280 had spun out of control and crashed headlong into the tunnel's 13th support pillar, killing Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and their driver, and injuring their bodyguard. Last Monday at 9:20 p.m., a flatbed truck backed slowly into the tunnel bearing the grotesquely gnarled black hulk that has etched itself into the world's collective consciousness...
...other photographers believed to have fled the accident scene. Testimony on the photographers' role in provoking the accident varies widely. Most of the paparazzi say the Mercedes left them hundreds of yards behind after its turn from the Place de la Concorde onto the riverside expressway leading to the Alma tunnel, but several witnesses claim that some of them were right behind the car or even in front of it. Sorting out these contradictory accounts is one of the investigation's main challenges...
Einhorn won a teaching fellowship at Harvard in the '70s. In the '60s he had taught an alternative-education class at Penn, his alma mater, and once reportedly broke out the joints, stripped naked and danced in the classroom. Thirty years ago, not everyone was after an M.B.A...
Last week magistrates closed off the Place de l'Alma tunnel and led a grim procession of investigators along the 60 ft. of skid marks that end at the fateful 13th post, graphic proof of Paul's attempts to retake control of the Mercedes in its final seconds. The group stopped often, checking charts, trying to pin down the truth of what happened. There have been too many stories, some rash, some without substance...