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Alas, after the death of the Princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. As I heard people make ridiculous and wholly unfounded references to Diana's "worldwide humanitarian achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. The only thing more bizarre than that week of maudlin...
...sparing them the 10 dollar bill for each of the pillows currently being marketed by Harvard Student Agencies.RED PHONE EXODUSJoining institutional pillows in the ranks of the deceased dorm room accessory, the red phones that were once standard issue for everyone from Wigglesworth to Winthrop also appear to have fallen casualty to underuse, having been removed from most dormitory rooms by University Information Services. “At one time, the red phones were the primary way to provide students with E-911 access prior to the ubiquity of cell phones,” wrote Associate Dean of Residential Life...
...Ford execs decided to trash all the highfalutin marketing research, overrule the family and honor their fallen president. Quel dommage...
...Alas, after the death of the princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely, I suspect, because they're obsessed with princess fantasies. Let's hope that once this anniversary is past, they will get a grip, grow up and move on. Leslie Brown Kessler, Chicago...
Alas, after the death of the Princessof Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. As I heard people make ridiculous references to Diana's "worldwide humanitarian achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely...