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...Charles and Diana each surrounded by cadres of supporters who leak material damaging to the other. In the case of Charles, even palace professionals and police have been < rumored to be fueling the family feud. In Diana's, it is friends like Gilbey and her brother Charles, the new Earl Spencer. If true, she may not be getting very good advice. Last year Spencer decided to head off a rumor about an affair that continued after his marriage by announcing himself that it was true. Perhaps not the sagest fellow to counsel the future Queen...
Arecent NBC immigration poll indicated that the number of people of Hispanic origin in the United States grew 53 percent between 1980 and 1990. With this influx have come forceful voices calling for one name under which all Spanish speakers can unify. Earl Shorris, author of the recently published Latinos: Biography of the People, favors "Latino," a term whose very sound embodies the one strand that Shorris believes ties all of these people together: their common language...
Larry O'Keefe's shining moment happened in the prologue of a Loeb Mainstage production. "I was once an Earl who induced erotic hallucination by putting his head inside a tutu and drawing the noose around him. And one night there was no stool. So, my manservant realized this, and he first got a stool that was too short, and then one that was too long, and finally he came back with a big black chair that was marked with an "X" and all the time we were cutting and pasting our dialogue...
Some experts are writing Perot off as a future political force. Political scientist Nelson Polsby of the University of California, Berkeley, says the Perot campaign was nothing more than "an ego trip by a very superficial person." Another political scientist, Earl Black of the University of South Carolina, agrees. "Perot," says Black, "was just an extremely wealthy individual with high visibility who was using his personality and charisma to fuel this movement...
Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog-hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana (hint: Paul Newman played him in Blaze). After one election, Long went back on a campaign promise in a big way. When a delegation of betrayed supporters showed up in Baton Rouge to protest, the Governor refused to see them. "What will I tell them?" asked a desperate aide. Long's immortal response: "Tell them I lied...