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...eatery offers snacks from bagels to Godiva chocolates and drinks from Nantucket Nectars to specialty blends from the Republic of Tea. (The discriminating tea connoisseur can choose from the exotic Dragon Well, advertised as ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu's Tea, to the more mundane Earl Grey.) For $1.25, a weary English concentrator can grab a regular cup of coffee to perk up before glancing through Cliffs Notes to Jane Austen's Emma, which can be found on the third floor...
...EARL SPENCER Champagne Charlie, we hardly knew ye. Guys in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the tabs...
Charles Spencer should have been a Tudor. The members of that English royal dynasty, now extinct, excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self...
Spencer denies the allegations of rampant adultery, with one of his lawyers sneering that Lockwood's team could dig up the names of just three of the earl's alleged dozen mistresses. Meanwhile, the earl, who has always been public about his wife's anorexia and neuroses, has briefed the court on Lockwood's alcohol and drug dependency, stating bluntly, in response to her demands for a sizable settlement, that "I am most fearful that should Victoria receive significantly more money from me than she does at present, she will be unable to resist the lure of the substances...
...Fall of Spencer At Princess Diana?s funeral, Earl Spencer was the people's hero ? sticking it to the monarchy and the press. But the British public has rounded on Earl Spencer following revelations brought to light in his messy divorce...