Word: princess
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...intelligent lawyer as well as a wife when Bill Clinton was first running for President (this was before her health plan). Lawyer Cherie Blair did not receive such treatment from the British press when Tony Blair first became prime minister. The British press had their hands full with Princess Diana. The advantage of having a royal family is that the royal family--no matter how dysfunctional--serves to depersonalize politics by drawing all critiques of personality in the public realm to itself. If we depersonalized political systems, we would actually get a lot more legislation passed efficiently and swiftly. Party...
...entertainment empire. Diller, 55, will pay Seagram $1.2 billion in cash plus HSN stock for Seagram's USA and Sci-Fi cable channels and most of its Universal TV operations. Among them: the acclaimed cops-and-lawyers show Law and Order and schlock hit Xena: Warrior Princess...
...collection moves with ease between fine works by major masters--Rembrandt, Pontormo, Rubens, Mantegna, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Turner--and illuminatingly good ones by less famous figures, such as Franz Xavier Winterhalter's coolly sumptuous portrait of a 19th century princess on the terrace of her villa in the Crimea, or a small, haunting study of a young girl by the Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff. It is already a deeply serious and discriminating collection and may turn into a great...
...wretched list of people failed the Princess of Wales on that terrible night in August: reckless paparazzi [WORLD, Oct. 13], a driver impaired by drugs and alcohol, an ineffectual bodyguard. But most shameful was the slow trip to the hospital when every second counted in getting Diana to a trauma center; she was deprived of a last chance for survival. PATRICIA JOERGER Rochester...
...Princess Diana lost her life in a road accident caused by very familiar villains: speed, alcohol and bad judgment. But how about the media's invasion of privacy? What is really needed is a thorough and impartial investigation of the press. But what outside agency exists that could undertake such a job and report the results? The circumstances surrounding Diana's death emphasize the demoralizing influence exerted by the modern media. ROBERT J. WIDENMANN Bronshoj, Denmark