Word: crashing
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...with a bang but a whimper. That's how the intensive two-year investigation into the death of PRINCESS DIANA and DODI FAYED wound up as French magistrates dropped all charges against the photographers who pursued the couple on the night of the crash. The real culprit, say French officials, was driver HENRI PAUL, whose state of inebriation and medication made him lose control of the car on a dangerous stretch of road. But Dodi's father Mohammed al Fayed, billionaire owner of the Paris Ritz, is appealing the decision to drop charges. Convinced that Princess Diana was murdered...
...ground or gone into a wall. "I'm sick of people going in," says Fillipino. "In the past year, a friend went in on a skydive, another drowned as a result of a BASE jump, another friend went in on a jump, another died in a skydiving-plane crash. You can't escape death, but you don't want to flirt with it either." It may be the need to flirt with death, or at least take extreme chances, that has his business growing at a rate of 50% a year...
What they're thinking: Extends net's spooky-youth monopoly with UFO-crash orphans...
...rest when they realize that you're talking about a bear-market harbinger that worked in the '80s. For this is a new age, and if anything is deadlier than a kid story among adults, it's a cautionary tale of how the stock market behaved in the pre-Crash, pre-Internet, it-may-as-well-be-prehistoric...
...Closure? Not by a long shot. First there are the appeals. Dodi's father, the conspiratorially minded Mohammed al-Fayed, has been publicly planning an appeal ever since it became apparent that the court would absolve the photogs. And then there are the lawsuits. The only survivor of the crash, Diana bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, may sue the Ritz and the limousine company that leased the crashed Mercedes; meanwhile, Diana's family and the English royal family are reportedly considering legal action. But the biggest drama still to come will be from the official British inquest, which could not start...