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...Ever wonder why the Diana crash was the coming-out party of the Internet as a news medium? It's because all the Web writers were underpaid company shlubs on three-day weekends if they were lucky - remember, this was before the bubble - and they were the first ones back to their desks when the news hit. And for the rest of the press, the message was clear: Leave town at your peril. We can fill...
...lately, the lonely August shift has been deluged with news. On Labor Day 1997 it was Princess Diana crumpling her car against a Paris tunnel wall. In 1998 it was the diligence of Ken Starr and the televising of Bill Clinton's "meaning of is" grand jury testimony. Everybody worked that month. In 1999 JFK, Jr. fell out of the sky in mid-July (and carried over well into August), and in 2000 there was the unnatural election that was just too close to let alone. (That one ruined Thanksgiving...
...HEIR AND THE SPARE: Four years after Diana?s death, Prince William and Prince Harry remain the most written-about teenagers in the world. On August 14, Morrow added to the verbiage, with "Diana?s Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They Loved" by Christopher Andersen, the bestselling author of "The Day Diana Died" (a No. 1 NYT bestseller), "Jack and Jackie, "Jackie After Jack," and "The Day John Died." It's timely, as William heads off to college, and the August 31 anniversary of Diana's death nears, and there are lots of never-seen...
...shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward shore. With Jessie's arm only partly swallowed, the shark tried to wiggle free from Vance's barehanded grasp. But Vance, at 6 ft. 1 in. and 200 lbs., held on and dragged it to shore where his wife Diana and others had laid Jessie on the sand...
...have to get him covered up," Werton told her friend. All they could find were a sheet and beach towels. Werton took over CPR compressions from Vance as Diana blew air into Jessie's mouth. Werton counted to five, then pushed five times, then counted again as Diana blew. His chest rose, so they knew they were getting air into...