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DUKE OF SLUR It took Buckingham Palace less than three hours to issue an apology after the Duke of Edinburgh, touring an electronics company, said a fuse box looked like it was "put in by an Indian." The palace has had practice. Some of the Duke's bons mots...
...anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...
...Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted dictator of Indonesia, a country that is now a fuse in search of a match. An often violent election campaign leads up to voting on June 7 that could bring to power reformers long critical of Freeport...
...Stability above all else." Ten years after the tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, that was President Jiang Zemin's directive, echoing through the state-run newspapers, and it seems to be the theme of a few tense days during which Beijing is determined to snip the fuse of protest before it burns too brightly. A Hong Kong-based human rights watchdog reports that authorities have questioned nearly 100 people to warn them against holding any memorials or demonstrations, and have kept at least 34 of them in detention. Police have paid visits to homes of parents who lost sons...
...wannabe-be Kerouacs, who sleep with "On the Road" under their pillows and dream of solitary road trips which fuse alcohol, cigarettes, lack of sleep and silence into brilliant creativity, the Open Mike In-the-Round at Club Passim will have readings, folk music starting at 8 p.m. The daring should arrive at 7:30 p.m. for sign-up. 47 Palmer St. 492-7679 for more details...