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...Economics, the death of Diana "has put Charles in an impossible position." Just a few weeks ago, a poll revealed that Britons were contemplating the notion that he might marry Camilla with less aversion, if not outright support. Even Diana, shortly before her death, told BBC court correspondent Jennie Bond that Parker Bowles should be given public recognition for her loyalty to Charles. "She realized Camilla was the love of Prince Charles' life," said Bond. "She went on to say that there was no need for them to marry, and I believed she felt that it was all right that...
...shaped by many of the same traumas--divorced parents, an unhappy first marriage and the death of a parent (Diana's father, Dodi's mother). The couple first met in 1986, at a polo match, but this summer, with the elder Fayed's prodding, the pair developed an intimate bond. "He was tres gentil, especially as Princess Diana would have seen him," says Dodi's friend. "All her life she was meeting very cold people. He was a big change for her." Al Fayed spokesman Michael Cole recalled speaking to Dodi in August, after news of the romance had broken...
...killings were so unusual that prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility that the men were actually trying to rob the house and are claiming to be bounty hunters as a cover. The California case is five years old, and the fugitive is no longer being sought. The bond company that the men said they were working for claims never to have hired or even heard of them...
...Most important, the city's long period of fiscal crisis has subsided. After a general fund deficit that grew to almost $7 million in 1990, the city has balanced its books and has accumulated a rainy-day fund of $25 million. Standard & Poor's, which suspended the city's bond rating after its 1978 bankruptcy, today gives the city...
...years ago, Daley, a Democrat, convinced Illinois' Republican state legislature to hand him authority over the schools. He ousted the city's entrenched educational bureaucracy, installed a school board that put nearly 20% of the schools on probation for low performance and got approval for $850 million in bond issues to build new school buildings and renovate old ones. The Daley regime's hard-hitting reforms, which included cutting 1,700 nonteaching jobs, are particularly impressive in a town where, in the days when Daley's father reigned as mayor and political boss, politicians used to say that the purpose...