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Gomes discussed the event with the Prince at Buckingham Palace for approximately an hour, during the minister's April visit to the United Kingdom...
...trip to Floors Castle in Scotland, where Prince Charles once wooed Diana. Like her good friend the Princess of Wales, Sarah Ferguson said yes, but her official betrothal to Prince Andrew had to wait until his mother returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. By the time Buckingham Palace released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year's house party...
Efforts at privatization have not always gone smoothly. Buckingham Security, which operates a 95-bed prison in Butler County, Pa., was forced to back away from a plan to build a new medium-security prison in Chartiers Township, Pa., after hundreds of angry residents stormed the town hall in protest. Among their concerns: Who would chase down escapees? Answer: the company would call in state or local law-enforcement officials...
...Buckingham claims that it can build a prison for less than half of what it would cost the state, and can house inmates for just over half the usual cost. One way the company proposes to save money is by paying its guards less than what civil service guards make. Critics, however, fear that for-profit prisons have a greater incentive to keep inmates in jail than they do to rehabilitate them...
...hand, said they wished Rosen the best of luck in his new job. One editor mumbled aloud his concern that the campus daily would not be able to function without Rosen, but his same and reasonable colleagues brought him back to reality. But they, too, had one question: "Is Buckingham Palace on Centrex...