Word: diana
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...presence was absolutely needed--a diversity of voices is essential, especially within the Harvard Corporate structure," said Diana L. Adair...
Charles Spencer should have been a Tudor. The members of that English royal dynasty, now extinct, excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self...
...fact, though, Parish, 36, is on the side of the angels--or at least of the late Princess Diana and the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Omnitech's gadgetry aids in detecting and detonating buried land mines. If that is in one sense an exceptionally narrow market, in another it is a phenomenally broad one. About 110 million mines are thought to be scattered around 70 countries, from Angola to Cambodia. They kill or maim some 24,000 people a year. And only about 100,000 mines a year are being deactivated, vs. 2 million new ones planted...
...paradigm? Diana, Princess of Wales. Last week's jilted bride, Nicole Contos, followed the essential outlines of Diana's example. The script: 1)The man (Prince Charles, or Tasos Michael) is a rotten, unfeeling, abusive cad, and inflicts a humiliation upon a naive and innocently hopeful young woman. 2)Instead of a Havisham withdrawal, however, the young woman goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star...
Second Car Theory Speeds Up Fiat? Or ghost car? A newly released sketch of the Diana crash site suggests there were more than just paparazzi at the scene...