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...unheard of. Actress Amy Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case the money could someday return to the Windsors. She does get to keep all personal jewelry she has amassed as Princess of Wales. Also...
...title of Her Royal Highness but keeping the title of Diana, Princess of Wales. As a result, she could be expected to curtsy to the Queen, her husband and her sons. Although no formal announcement of the settlement was made, Diana is expected to get a $15 million lump sum and a generous annual allowance. She will also keep her apartments at Kensington Palace. Prince Charles, when he ascends to the throne, will be the first divorced monarch since George I, who reigned between 1714 and 1727. He is, however, now free to marry longtime love interest Camilla Parker Bowles...
...Cambridge, you will not find the 1990s equivalent of Hokey-Pokey--the cheap ice cream sold by street vendors until the 1920's at a penny a lump. The trend among Harvard Square vendors is to offer more expensive, home-made, gourmet ice creams...
Additional prizes went to Natan J. Leyva '96 for "The Tension Between Rights and Democracy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue"; James B. Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History...
...mines, except to protect South Korea and the Persian Gulf. White House officials even suggest that the ban could begin as early as 1999. "We've all agreed we're going to have to get rid of land mines," says a senior Pentagon policymaker. "We have to lump them together with chemical and biological weapons. Even though we used them more carefully than other nations, we still agreed to scrap them...