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...author's message was headlined APOLOGY and inserted in 250 fresh-off-the-press children's books given to guests at last week's Congressional Black Caucus Foundation luncheon in Washington. "I apologize to you all for the atrocities which I and others committed against our race through gang violence," wrote Stanley ("Tookie") Williams, who in 1971 co-founded the nation's largest and arguably most violent street gang, the Crips. "I pray that one day my apology will be accepted...
...darted and honed in; people strained to look casual and turn their necks, owl-like, 180 degrees. A collective concentration fixed in on Hillary, as she stood there painfully aware of her own aura in an airy pale purple suit. She must not have been very pleased with the luncheon options, judging by the frown on her face--and I must say that I agreed with her: a chunky, dry ham and cheese sandwich and a bottle of pulpy juice just don't cut it on a humid, 90-degree...
...giant chocolate chip cookie and pounce on me, the would-be assassin. So there's the Secret Service, I thought. They seemed invisible until you actually looked at them. I smiled a nice innocent smile and slid past, following our menacing bee-line towards the First Daughter and her luncheon companions. Having passed the security barrier, Chelsea looked up at us in an encouraging way and waited for our greeting...
...makes it into seniors' hands, the further costs of joining one's fellow students in jubilation become manifest: $4 for a senior film and slide show; $12 for a moonlight cruise; $15 for the "Last Chance" dance; $35 for the Class Day Clambake; $10 for the Radcliffe Alumni Association luncheon...
Spike Lee and Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but the genial dauphin of nearby Monaco. It was the first time in nine years that Grace Kelly's son had visited the festival, lured by Temptress Moon's elegant producer Hsu Feng, who thus provided a new answer to the old question: How do you get Prince Albert into Cannes...