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Charles and Diana are determined to raise their sons as normally as possible, lest they become little potentates in a kingdom of petticoat power. One of the first signs of Diana's resolve was her decision to give birth to Prince William in a hospital, despite the Queen's preference that she lie in at the palace. Diana then chose a decidedly unstuffy and untraditional nanny named Barbara Barnes (Prince William calls her Ba-ba). Diana is not of the children-should-be-seen-and-not-heard school of absentee royal mom. She is a hands-on mother, and some...
...routine since the turn of the century, when Scotland Yard pioneered its systematic use. Computers were brought into the process in 1976, when the FBI began converting some 17 million prints to digital form. Today, every armchair detective knows better than to pick up a gun by its handle, lest he obliterate fingerprints that could identify the killer...
...Calvino's narrative of this doomed quest succeeds admirably, in part because he, like Samuel Beckett, recognizes the comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. Mr. Palomar's relentless speculations render him buffoonish. Passing a woman sunbathing topless on a beach, he averts his eyes lest she cover herself and embarrass them both. On reflection, though, he decides that his behavior was incorrect, since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape. But that was wrong...
...Antonio, County Judge Tony Jimenez arraigned a prisoner tested positive for AIDS in the man's jail cell, lest the courtroom and staff get contaminated...
What kind of impression does all this make? On the one hand, that of some kind of confusion and uncertainty in Washington. The only way I can explain this is anxiety lest our initiatives should wreck the version of the Soviet Union being the "focus of evil" and the source of universal danger, which in fact underlies the entire arms race policy. On the other hand, there is an impression of a shortage of responsibility for the destinies of the world. And this, frankly speaking, gives rise again and again to the question whether it is at all possible...