Word: duke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duke (at William & Mary...
...Duke University, which moved up two spots to tie with Yale for third in this year's survey, released a statement from its president, Nannerl O. Keohane, saying the survey was "good news indeed" but acknowledging "that such surveys, even when they are as positive as this one for Duke, are not the basis on which students and their families should determine college choice...
...properties. In addition to London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease on the Paris villa that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in after the duke abdicated the British throne to marry a commoner. Al Fayed has spent $40 million restoring the villa and its contents, although he announced that Sotheby's auction house will be selling 40,000 items from it. Al Fayed's brother owns...
...elder Al Fayed's decision to auction off the contents of the Windsor villa set off speculation that he was cleaning it out so that Dodi and Di could marry and move in. There would have been rich symbolism in the two of them living together in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's former home, proving to a new generation that there can be life, and love, after royalty. Alas...
...movie of Hunter S. Thompson's equally chaotic book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not that Gilliam, known for such movies as Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys, doesn't want to make the film, which stars Depp as Thompson's alter ego, the pharmacological adventurer Raoul Duke. It's just that he's not sure he wants to do it this way. "Tony Grisoni and I wrote the script in eight days, but we didn't like it, so we rewrote in two days," he says. "It's literally gonzo filmmaking. Day by day we don't know...