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Higher was also the objective of the many stargazers who attended the first week's events and collected celebrities like pins: Simpson, David Hasselhoff, Bruce and Demi, Arnold, Ali, Chelsea--who, bless her heart, went to everything--and her parents. Royalty mixed with Olympian and, in the case of Kuwaiti swimmer S.A.B.S. Sultan Alotaibi, who finished 37th out of 37 in the 200-m individual medley, were one and the same. Perhaps the most interesting encounter occurred at the Olympic Village, when U.S. team handball circle runner Dave DeGraaf was followed into the lavatory by men in suits. "Mr. President...
...journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales...
...Band, plays six members of a band and the conductor--all in one shot. Melies made color films; the Germans, in 1905, made talking pictures. Italians developed the historical epic. The French persuaded Camille Saint-Saens to compose a score for a 1908 film and Sarah Bernhardt to bless the infant medium with her stage-star quality...
Your article on same-sex marriage outlined the arguments for and against it [LAW, June 3]. But isn't it time for churches and synagogues and all the faiths to provide for a "blessing of friendship"? We already bless hounds and foxes, pets, boats and all sorts of things; why not bless two people who are devoted to each other, no matter what their sexual orientation? Isn't it time for the state to acknowledge "life partners" and give them all the legal and social benefits others have? And if any of these life-partner relationships prove to be less...
...imagined that getting the Federal Trade Commission to bless the merger between Time Warner and the Turner Broadcasting System, two giants in the multibillion-dollar cable-TV business, would be a walk in the park. So it was hardly a surprise last week when leaks emanating from the FTC suggested that agency staff members favored blocking the $7.5 billion merger in its current form. Whatever the staff's inclination, the actual decision to approve or block the deal will be made by the five Federal Trade Commissioners. And they have yet to speak...