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...station wagon at 3:30 a.m. and load it with a large wooden box and two evening dresses wrapped in plastic. When challenged by the bobby, Burrell said he was removing items Diana's family wanted him to destroy, and was doing so at this hour to be discreet. Boyce said the family will rebut this. He reminded the jury that photo albums of the young princes or Diana's dresses could buy the person who presented them to Sotheby's a comfortable retirement. Burrell, whose final service to Diana after 10 tumultuous years as butler and close confidant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal Souvenirs | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

RJD2 does share his space with a couple of very carefully selected MCs: Jakki has a very capable, if not entirely unpredictable battle-rhyme on “F. H. H.” (discreet for “Fuck Hip Hop,” surprisingly). But it is on “June” with MC Copywrite that RJD2 demonstrates that not only can he back a dextrous rapper, he can steal the show back again. The dense, shifting atmospherics range from mournful guitar noodlings to the everpresent bass/high-hat tussle that comes forcefully to the fore...

Author: By Andrew R. Illif and Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Music | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...BGLTSA is more prominent, while we want to be more low-key and discreet about who’s coming,” he said. “We need to remain apolitical so that students without a political stance can feel comfortable...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Awareness Campaign Marks 'Coming Out Day' | 10/11/2002 | See Source »

Grafton Street’s new layout lives up to its name. Like discreet side-streets off of bustling thoroughfares, the large space is filled with seating in nooks and crannies half-hidden behind the prominent tables and a highly-visible bar area...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grafton Street Reopens Doors, Draws Back Regulars | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...When he's not being offensively flippant, Vidal waxes indignant, not at the hijackers, but at the American government. "There have been ominous signs," he writes, "that our fragile liberties have been dramatically at risk since the 1970s when the white-shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Books About 9/11 | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

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