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...legal team reacted quickly to the snub, threatening to break off negotiations if Charles' private promises were not honored. Diana told her favorite reporter, Richard Kay of the Daily Mail, that she had given the royals everything they wanted, "and they are still not satisfied. Now they are playing Ping-Pong with me." The palace lofted another ping, announcing that the Queen wished that discussions "be conducted privately and amicably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRACTURED FAIRY TALE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...Clancy, millionaire author and unlikely roue, has returned to his wife. In April Wanda Clancy filed for a legal separation from her spouse of 25 years, claiming she had been "abandoned and deserted" and that he had "committed adultery with one Katherine Huang, a.k.a. 'Bin Bin,' a.k.a. 'Ping Ping.'" But cute epithets were apparently not enough to hold the interest of Clancy, who met Huang, a Bronx assistant D.A., through a computer online service. He has moved back in with Wanda and begun to appear publicly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1995 | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...better. Jealousy can be hard for moms and dads to deal with; imagine spending a lifetime striving to outdo one's peers only to be shown up by one's progeny. Such humiliations can be writ small--a six-year-old who keeps beating Dad in Ping-Pong--or large--a generation that, enviably, manages to look more rebellious than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT YOUR PARENTS' PUNK | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...playing ping-pong in the common room around 5:30 p.m.," said Jordan A. Cooper '99, "and the TV was still there...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: TV Stolen From Greenough Room | 9/21/1995 | See Source »

...basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss, especially Junior. 'Just one more game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRON BIRD | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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