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When is a party more than a party? When a future King is throwing it, publicly, for his mistress. The British press was all atwitter about the implications of the fancy 50th birthday knees-up that CHARLES threw for CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES at his Highgrove estate. Camilla turned up early in a dazzling diamond necklace, possibly a gift from Charles, to greet guests--including her ex-husband. The bash was held in a 120-ft.-long marquee in Highgrove's meticulously tended gardens. Everyone was happy except perhaps the local vicar, who pointed out to the BBC a few days...
Mike Tyson, who may have earned $140 million since he got out of prison two years ago, spent his 31st birthday begging. Two days after he sampled Evander Holyfield's ear, threw away their championship return bout and maybe also the rest of his career, Tyson was standing before a microphone pleading not to be barred from boxing. "I only ask that I not be penalized for life for this mistake," he said. He added that he had sought professional help "to find out why I did what...
Kuralt, 62, died in New York City of a heart attack. He had been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, after his retirement from CBS News in 1994. There is some resonance in his death's occurring on the Fourth of July, not just the birthday of the country whose discovery he continued but, as it happens, also a milestone in the exploration of another world. His four-decade career is testament to the fact that there are wonders that do not need to take your breath away, and that there are underappreciated worlds to wander into, down...
American children usually receive two immunizations for the measles by their second birthday, but regulations around the world are less clear-cut, Rosenthal said...
...birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...