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...legend of Diana is just beginning. The people of Britain are very proud of their beautiful princess, who lit up the world with her unique smile and traveled the globe bringing peace and harmony everywhere she went. FRANK A. LOPEZ Redwood City, Calif...
...issues with President Jiang Zemin, delivering a major speech, engaging in wonky chatfests with "ordinary" Chinese citizens, and he seemed to enjoy those too. Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. It was a lot more fun than hanging around Washington not answering questions about Monica Lewinsky. As White House spokesman Michael McCurry put it, referring to last week's grand jury...
Unfortunately, after the Beast's sweet surrender, the energy level never reaches its full steam again. Gaston and the townspeople's invasion of the castle is good for a few cheap laughs and a Wagner leitmotif (all you good "Lit and Arts B-55: Opera" students should be able to recognize which one) but runs low on special effects. The Beast's metamorphosis dazzles everyone but stands as the last captivating moment of the show. Finally, as the orchestra swells to a passionate finish as the now-human cast waltzes around the stage...nothing happens. The curtain falls, the cast...
Most of them are living lives very much like the ones they lived in college, minus the homework. They live in shared, cramped rooms with college friends, even sometimes with their actual college roommates, lit by rather familiar-looking halogen lamps and decorated with posters, not pictures, on the walls. A handful know how to cook, but those who can cook treat it almost like a hobby, not a daily task. The rest survive on large quantities of frozen food, spaghetti and Ramen Noodles. Some of them have not even bothered to buy beds, sleeping instead on our decade...
...evening in Sarajevo, and a warm glow lit up the second-floor windows of the private home of a United Nations official. U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith '73 sat across the table from Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic and prepared for a tense dinner of diplomatic discussions...