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...while photographers fed on young Wills' misbehavior. He picked a fight with a mite-size flower girl at the wedding of Prince Andrew and Fergie and made gloriously juvenile faces at little girls who were presenting flowers to his grandmother. By the time he was eight or so, he had calmed down and was generally more reflective than Harry. He also showed precocious self-possession. With his ancient great-grandmother he is a model little gentleman, helping to guide her down church steps and holding the umbrella over her head...
...Alicia particularly hard. In the good old days, says middle school best friend Jennifer Champion, 14, "it was so much fun. We were just always happy. Her favorite symbol thing"--here Jenny sketches on her knee with a fingernail--"was peace, a heart, happiness, harmony, sunshine and then 'flower power.' We'd always write that on our notes." But not long before her death, Alicia told Jenny that she had been hospitalized and had tried to kill herself "tons of other times: she showed me the slit marks on her wrists; she said her stomach had been pumped...
...plausible scenario, at least. But whatever the reason, Olmec society was in full flower by 1200 B.C., at a place known as San Lorenzo, on a fertile plain overlooking the Chiquito River. Like all the known Olmec sites, San Lorenzo is much less impressive than the Mayan cities that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...
...standing in the flower beds, and I was walking out the door and I noticed someone there. Then I looked up and I saw her, and I said 'Okay, I'm happy,'" he recalls, blushing...
...character," says Thomas A. Dingman '67, associate dean for human resources and the house system. "He'll sometimes burst into song. On the worst March day, Archie will appear with a flower in his lapel...