Word: fallen
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Land Mine. The stories-or rather, the collage of perceptions-are told by a woman whose last name is Fain and whose first name may be Jennifer (one friend, at least, calls her Jen). Success seems to have fallen on her from a great height. She traipses obligingly but glumly through a succession of jobs usually thought to be desirable: newspaper reporter, foundation consultant, college teacher, congressional staff worker. She is clearly getting somewhere; where, exactly, and whether it is a place worth being are answers that elude her. "Things," she muses, "have changed very much, several times, since...
When Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis married Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis 14 months ago, everyone was surprised at the couple's one-month courtship. The lightning-fast merger has now fallen apart, and last week relatives of both Christina, 25, and Alexander, 31, revealed that the pair had agreed to a divorce. Not all Christina watchers were surprised. After a motorcycle spill had hospitalized Andreadis with a broken leg last August, his wife came by to autograph the cast. Her inscription: "Bon voyage, Alexandras, better luck next time...
Carter's childhood dream of attending the Naval Academy was disturbed by his fear that he might not be able to pass the physical, because of the malocclusion of his teeth and his slight case of flat feet. Typically, and no doubt fruitlessly, he rolled his fallen arches over Coke bottles for some time before his first physical in hope of correcting nature's error. A Congressman got him his appointment to the academy...
Bernhard hardly looked the fallen prince on his return to public life last week. No wonder. As if to ease the pains of humiliation, the Dutch government had voted him a 10% raise, giving Bernhard a princely $321,000 a year in pocket money...
Foreign analysts have been intrigued by the selection of Mao's successor almost since the Republic's founding, and many who seemed primed for the position--like Teng Hsiaoping--have abruptly fallen by the wayside. Hofheinz thinks Mao was also highly concerned with succession in his last year. Nonetheless, he says, Mao tried to undermine any institutionalized process of succession. He stood out above everyone else and tended to create anonymity at the level below him. Hofheinz hazards that "there are those who will try to preserve this anonymity using collective leadership in the name of Chairman Mao to justify...