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...breed of risk takers is betting on the high-technology future...
...Queen celebrated her pearl jubilee in the company of her husband, Prince Philip, 60, and her corgis, a breed Elizabeth made famous when she took to it in the days when she was a princess. Although she has outlasted all but ten British monarchs, Her Majesty is still 34 years shy of the mark set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria (1837-1901). If Elizabeth does set a new record, it will not be realized until the year 2014. Heir Apparent Prince Charles, 33, would then...
Incidentally, one of the few exceptions to this breed of conclusion is the carefully worded closing line in the essay on Harvard...
...staging a fair to raise funds for a local, racially mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play...
Faye Dunaway belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating...