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Smith, well-known philan-thropist and a Forbes 400 millionaire with assets totaling about $460 million, will fill the seat on the University's chief governing board left empty when Colman Mockler Jr. '52, chair of the Gillette Corporation, died last January...
...precepts of her Communist Youth League childhood and, in turn, all of her lovers: "What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset by her husband's continued philan-gdering, she returns to Czechoslovakia, and he follows, knowing that the i authorities will forbid him to practice medicine...
...compensate for the movie's so-what story, Stone has also tried to fashion a Hepburn-Tracy relationship for his hero and heroine. Bisset is cast as the world's greatest (and probably thinnest) pastry chef, while Segal plays her ex-husband, a fast-food maven whose philan dering broke up the marriage. It is not the actors' fault that they walk through the film with plastic smiles: the characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this couple ever...
...first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella specified in her will that Ferdinand, her husband (who was not in the blood line of succession), should rule as regent of Castile if Juana was incapable of ruling. When Isabella died in 1504, Juana got the crown, but Ferdinand...
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