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...plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman, 2. The queen, who earned her architecture degree at Princeton ('74), observes: "Our planning may leave something to be desired, but our designs, thank God, have been flawless." And very cute...
...advertised itself as a model society largely devoid of the social strains that create such wrenching political violence. Stunned Swedes tossed red roses on the murder site; some placed candles on the sidewalk. By Saturday morning, the lines of mourners wound around the block. On a wall a banner was hung, reading: WHY MURDER A TRUE DEMOCRAT? "It is an almost unbelievable shock," said Ulf Adelsohn, leader of the conservative opposition in the country's one-house parliament. "Sweden will never be the same after this." Following an all-night meeting of key Swedish leaders, Acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...
...military promotion system, charged a report circulated anonymously by alumni of the Philippine Military Academy, "rewards boot-licking incompetence and banishes independent-minded professionals and achievers." At academy homecoming ceremonies a month later, 300 alumni from the 14 most recent graduating classes openly declared their feelings by hoisting a banner that read UNITY THROUGH REFORMS, with many sporting T shirts that proclaimed WE BELONG...
...thought of games at Briggs, with the good ole Harvard band straggling in minutes before tipoff to crank out the Star Spangled Banner--sometimes...