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...Egyptian-born multimillionaire, and Princess Diana were on their way to his opulent 10-room apartment overlooking the Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...battles" a great Iraqi victory because he heroically resisted the attack by 40 nations and stayed in power. He got away with the brutal suppression of a postwar rebellion that flared in 14 of 18 Iraqi provinces while the first Bush Administration stood back. He made defiance a pillar of his power. "Saddam sees himself as a lone figure, battling the greatest power on earth," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist who has profiled the Iraqi leader for the CIA. Saddam felt, as did many others in the Arab world, that he had "won" the first Gulf...
...Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
...expelled from the University of Illinois journalism school when a Depression-era bank failure made his $100 tuition check bounce. Memories of his early penury, Stacks says, and his immigrant's outsider mentality stuck with Reston through his life, even though by his 40s he was a well-paid pillar of the East Coast establishment...
...also means that Cheney's influence depends entirely on the state of his relationship with Bush, which he has proved very good at tending. Its first pillar is that it includes only one President, now and forever more. This is all but an article of faith in Washington: as budget director Mitch Daniels puts it, Cheney's title is "Senior Adviser Without Future Political Ambition." As Bush happily told some congressional guests early in his first term, "Dick's doing a good job because he's told me he doesn't want to be President." Cheney had his fourth heart...