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...media gathered outside the Hollywood, Fla., hospital where her body lay, one cable network correspondent observed there were more cameras present than he had seen at Yassir Arafat's funeral. But Anna Nicole Smith, 39, possessed a different kind of claim to fame and infamy. She went from a flat-chested, smalltown girl who worked at Wal-Mart and Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Texas to become a mega-celebrity of the 21st century sort, all name, little resume...
...Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future ... 'It may well be,' wrote a thoughtful London editorialist, 'that we here in Britain, by accident rather than design, have stumbled back to the original, the true and abiding function of monarchy, which lay in the magical power of kings ... to represent, express and effect the aspirations of the collective subconscious.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...Nevertheless, Hill said he expected a draft agreement by tomorrow that would lay out the steps that needed to be taken and a time frame for all the choreography to occur (Hill hoped everything could be accomplished in "single-digit weeks.") For the moment, the atmospherics are good - a rare occasion. But don't be surprised as details once again get in the way of a deal. It's happened before...
...inspect the damage. My heart sank. On the third floor landing were fragments of porcelain in colors of oxblood, imperial yellow, celadon green and blue-and-white. The third-floor rooms resembled a scene after an earthquake. The Red Guards had emptied my storage cupboard. Flour, sugar and food lay on top of heaps of clothing they had taken out of cupboards. They had already dealt with my fur coats and evening dresses with scissors. The ceiling fan was whirling. Bits of fur, silk and torn tissue paper were flying around. Tables and chairs were overturned. In my bedroom...
...monument and cautionary tale) with the charred shells of trucks and armored cars destroyed as they struggled to relieve the besieged Jews of Jerusalem in 1948. Three-quarters of the Jewish population and all of Israel's major cities, its airports and the bulk of its industry lay within range of Arab artillery. Wars followed one another in savage procession. In 1956 Israel tried to rid itself of the Arab threat from Gaza by joining Britain and France in attacking Egypt. The U.N. forced Israel to pull back. But Israel learned a lesson: never again a withdrawal without something...