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...within the school. He can't flex his money. There is no personal expression through clothes, and cars are not allowed. Wealth or personage outside the school mean little." In this self-contained world, titles confer no privileges, and the prince is probably not the only boy with a bodyguard. Foreign leaders' children and scions of Greek shipping magnates bring them along too. Says London School of Economics historian David Starkey: "William is as near to normal at Eton as someone in his position is wont to be. Many people there are richer than he is. There are many people...
Maybe it was his Runyonesque swagger, or the 6-ft. 6-in., 350-lb. former football linebacker who served as his bodyguard, or his expert craft, which included hiding a key in a potted plant. Whatever the case, Gary Hipple, a U.S. Customs agent based in San Francisco, convinced a group of Chinese arms dealers that he was a Mafia big shot who was in the market to buy guns for drug rings and street gangs. By the time the undercover deal was over, Hipple and his partner, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who also posed...
...Warner Bros. movie on his life), Lech Walesa is going back to the shipyard. The former Polish President has moved to Gdansk, and intends to return to his old place of employment. If he's really lucky, he may earn almost as much as his state-supplied bodyguard...
...with is lacking, so are most performances. "I closed my eyes," says Whitney Houston's character, Savannah, "And I exhaled." But Houston's performance lacks destination, so this epiphanic experience doesn't ring true. Houston has some good songs on the soundtrack, but after her wretched performance in "The Bodyguard," it's surprising to see her in a leading role again. She simply doesn't have the depth to sustain a performance any longer than a music video...
...Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million at the box office worldwide, while the sound track sold 33 million copies--she's proved she has multimedia clout...