Word: dianas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Diana Buttu, a political consultant and former legal adviser to the PLO, adds: ?They're not interested in solving the conflict in any meaningful way - just uttering nice slogans, that...
...seems to be making only a half-hearted bid. The Mile High City is seen as a good jumping-off point for a West eyed hungrily by Democrats. Of course, Denver has long been a Democratic stronghold - with Mayors John Hickenlooper and Federico Pena and Congresswomen Pat Schroeder and Diana DeGette - though the state of Colorado can tilt red or blue, depending upon the whims of independents. The past election marked a transition from Republican Governor Bill Owens to Democrat Bill Ritter. Nevertheless, Denver's effort to win the '08 convention has been stalled because of Taylor's refusal...
...Every decade has an iconic blond like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana, and right now I'm that icon...
...Peter Knight, a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester who studies conspiracy theories, agrees that "if a major event happens, people want a major cause behind it." But he notices other trends at work in the persistence of Diana conspiracy theories. "Over the past 50 years, there's been a shift from scapegoating minorities - 'the Jews did it, the blacks did it' - to blaming people in power, like the royal family, the government, intelligence agencies. That's always been a bigger theme in the U.S. than in Britain, but Britain, indeed Europe as a whole is following...
...Being convinced that a conspiracy of elites killed Diana, the People's Princess, just fits into the zeitgeist. Says Cooper: "Your successor, and your successor's successor, is going to be writing about Diana conspiracy theories...