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...editor of PEOPLE magazine, I was charged with covering every move she made, and one night some years ago, because the magazine had made a substantial contribution to whatever charity it was, I was Princess Diana's "escort" to a benefit performance of Falstaff by the Welsh National Opera. When I first met her that night, I thought I'd cut the ice with a little self-deprecating humor along the lines of how it was I who had perpetrated such insanely thorough coverage of her in America. So as I shook her hand I said, "Yes, I admit...
Later I explained what I'd meant, and she explained what she'd meant. She talked about the siege of the press, the terrors of being so public, especially in so small a place as England. We talked a fair amount, neither of us being particular fans of this opera. I don't remember much of what was said, though I do remember she asked lots of questions about my daughter--What did she like to do? How did she like school? What were her favorite things? She didn't talk about her own children, but I could tell from...
...expected her to be as lovely as her pictures, or so tall. Contrary to the storied upbringing of British aristocracy, she fidgeted constantly, pulling at various parts of her white sequined dress as a child might. At a dinner following the opera, she walked, alone, down a huge winding staircase without ever looking at her feet, so we knew she was a princess. But at dinner she ate like your sister, tearing into her meal with a kind of wanton delight, turning aside her lady-in-waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation...
...Center bombing or the Los Angeles quake barely registered a 3 rating. "My sense is it's just about a big a thing as you can get," says TIME National Correspondent Richard Zoglin. "Diana was the most famous person in the world. Her life was kind of a soap opera, and the ending was classic soap opera." Only this soap was for real, and that stark reality touched everyone who sat open-mouthed in front of a TV set or computer screen this weekend. Their only comfort: that millions of others were grieving...
...prescient reporting, including a prediction last spring that Mir was star-crossed, has won him few friends in the Russian space community. Annoyed by Meier's detailed accounts of the debacles, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov once growled at him, "The West must understand that this isn't a soap opera...