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The separation announcement confirms that the tabs were right, a tough fact for the royal family to face. The palace clings to the one thing Charles and Diana undoubtedly have in their favor: both conduct their public lives energetically and responsibly. Now, despite official denials, there will be separate "courts...
The moral: Never believe in the fairy tales movie people create. They will buoy your spirit and, with the flick of a headline, crush it. Another moral: Don't always heed what you read. The tabloid newspapers, especially in New York City, have feasted on this fracas, one-upping each...
In the public fracas surrounding the expansion, it was always the exterior of Gwathmey's new $24 million slab that got all the attention; the $22 million interior renovation of Wright's building (which cost $7 million in 1959) was mentioned only passingly. Now that the work is finished and...
But Dublin politicians saw her as a troublemaker who would use her potent legal skills to cross the boundaries of her job and challenge the government. Any such action, they feared, would damage the value of her nebulous office. No fracas has ever occurred. She showed her grasp of the...
The same unerring sense of where power lay served him again in late 1986, when a major fracas erupted over a secret memo drafted by members of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. These intellectuals articulated long- festering resentments over Tito's systematic undermining of Serbia's power, culminating...