Word: duking
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...citizenship, his hand in bringing down Tory ministers--had left him embittered. In Diana he picked up the jewel both prized and tossed aside by the English elite, a diamond with an edge that could cut. Snaring her, and perhaps even installing her in the former residence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (which al Fayed holds), would simultaneously concoct an alternative monarchy and remind the real one of a time when it had faltered...
Despite these ingratiating efforts, and his considerable commitments to various charities, acceptance within the British elite has eluded al Fayed. In France his restoration of two fabled Paris properties, the Ritz Hotel and the Bois de Boulogne villa of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, earned him La Legion d'Honneur. But in Britain al Fayed could recite--and often did--a list of the many slights directed at him by the Establishment. After he poured $50 million into restoring the Windsor villa, he grumbled to the New York Times, "Not one single official said, 'Mohammed al Fayed, thank...
Kugel will be succeeded at the career placement office by John H. Noble, formerly the director of Duke's Career Development Center...
...COLUMBIA, 12 noon Wed. 24 at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Sat. 27 at Yale, 12 noon October Wed. 1 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 3:30 p.m. Sat. 4 PENNSYLVANIA, 12 noon Fri. 10 at Cornell, 3 p.m. Mon. 13 PROVIDENCE, 1 p.m. Fri. 17 at William & Mary, 3 p.m. Sat. 18 vs. Duke (at William & Mary), 2 p.m. Wed. 22 BOSTON COLLEGE, 3 p.m. Sat. 25 PRINCETON, 12 noon Wed. 29 at Northeastern, 6:30 p.m. November Sat. 1 at Dartmouth, 2 p.m. Sat. 8 at Brown, 12 noon Sat. 15, Sun. 16 NCAA First Round/ECAC Tournament (Site...
Kugel will be succeeded at the career placement office by John H. Noble, formerly the director of Duke's Career Development Center...