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Lawyers are working overtime looking for loopholes to drive a golf cart through. Just last week there were more members at the Super Bowl than Diana Ross had costume changes at halftime. Calling a trip a campaign event puts a person under a whole other set of rules. There will always...
Leslie Goodman, who worked as a press secretary in the Reagan Administration recounted the time she organized a formal dinner for a visit from Princess Diana, and misspelled her title as Princess of Whales...
...year is still new, but 1996 is beginning to smell a lot like another annus horribilis for Queen Elizabeth. First there's what tabloids have dubbed the Seven Words War between PRINCESS DIANA and her sons' nanny, ALEXANDRA ("TIGGY") LEGGE-BOURKE. At an otherwise perfectly festive staff Christmas party--Prince Charles sprays Silly String on staff members, they dump glitter on him--Diana allegedly made so odious a remark to Tiggy that the nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly...
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck makes a now-famous remark to the effect that, if you know only one language, basically you don't know any language at all: since you can't imagine that your own cunning little world has a boundary, the idea of stepping beyond it seems nonsensical, and so you can't begin to fathom the existence of other worlds. Her apt application of this metaphor to the experience of religion, though, finds a more comfortable home in our minds than in our collective stomach lining. No one would dispute...
...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston, Tamala M. Edwards/Washington, Elaine Rivera/New York and Diana Tollerson/Atlanta