Word: diana
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President of Wellesley College Diana Chapman Walsh, a former Harvard professor and a friend of Wilson, noted in her toast that being the president of a college is little like being a funeral attendant...
CONS --Diverse cultural backgrounds: she's the second cousin of Prince Charles; he grew up in Ridgefield, N.J. --She may have picked up some bad marriage tips from twice playing Princess Diana in TV movies --Her last marriage, to producer Robert Evans in 1998, was annulled after 12 days...
Though Egyptian billionaire MOHAMED AL-FAYED failed to win British citizenship (again) this month, it hasn't impeded his plans to spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come...
...life is better because of the crop of new masters who have taken the reins. In Leverett House, Howard and Ann Georgi have won universal praise by learning students' names, participating in intramural events, opening the dining hall at night and generally caring that people are happy. Lowell Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy Austin have won similar praise. The new generation of masters also seems more amenable to trying universal keycard access, a simple but very significant change that students have long clamored for. Verdict: Better...
...understand a word she's singing and yet somehow feels what she's feeling. She has already visited Japan on a tiny, promo-tour scale, but, she explains, "I haven't been to Japan like Whitney's been to Japan, like Tina [Turner]'s been to Japan, like Diana Ross has been to Japan." Impact is everything. It's at moments like these that one sees another side of Brandy, a shrewdly ambitious side. She may lack the blunt careerist lust of, say, Celine Dion, but her gaze is just as focused on global stardom. TV movies are just...