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...Fayed family says Diana had given Dodi a pair of cuff links that belonged to her late father and a gold cigar clipper with a tag inscribed WITH LOVE FROM DIANA. Dodi had written a poem for Diana, had it engraved on silver and placed beneath her pillow at his apartment. At their last dinner together, on Saturday, he presented her with a $205,400 diamond ring that he had arranged to be made by Albert Repossi, a Paris jeweler. Was it an engagement ring? "He told me how much he was in love with the princess," Repossi said later...
...name "Fire and Ice" springs not from the famous Robert Frost poem but from the contrast between the heat of the grill-which can reach temperatures of up to 450 degrees Farenheit-and the chilled drinks offered...
...outraged by President Clinton's welfare bill, which deprived legal immigrants of some benefits. As one of the country's most prominent immigrants, Soros felt he must respond. He did so at once, setting up the Emma Lazarus Fund (named for the writer of The New Colossus, the poem excerpted in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor..."), to which he pledged $50 million over three years. Legal immigrants represent only about 6% of those on public aid, he points out, yet they took more than 40% of the cuts in welfare...
Artless, yes; the poem lacked the gift of making grief palpable, as Stewart had done with such searing poignancy in Vertigo. But the feelings were just as direct, honorable, crushing. Imagine his desolation when, in 1994, Gloria died, at 75, of lung cancer. With no hand to hold, no hair to stroke, no lovely, comforting figure to share his bed, Stewart was bereft and, for all his loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix...
...have attempted to write a poem about my father who at 11 or 12 hired himself out at a hiring fair as essentially a glorified slave to a farmer," Muldoon said, before reciting his "Third Epistle to Timothy...