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...otherwise--does bin Laden get from old friends in Saudi Arabia, and why hasn't the U.S. dealt more harshly with the Saudi problem? Treasury officials have been arguing for months to come down harder on Saudis who were giving cash to known bin Laden charity fronts. Last year Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was found to have given money directly to the family of a Saudi man in San Diego who befriended and assisted two of the 9/11 hijackers. Yet the Administration acted as if she had merely...
...that only a year ago Carolina Kluft, currently the world's leading heptathlete, was competing as a junior (admittedly, the world's top junior). Two weeks ago the bubbly 20-year-old Swede graduated to an even higher plane, as she accepted a special award from Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria. Kluft had been voted this year's Victoria Scholar, one of the highest honors in Swedish sports. The award panel singled out "the very un-Swedish way she has shown us that you really can have fun on the field of competition, even though there is so much...
Imagine the pitch meeting. "It's a comic book about PRINCESS DIANA! Superpowers? Uh--let's make her a mutant! She's dead, you say? Great! We'll totally save on legal fees!" The foregoing is completely made up, but this isn't: on Sept. 10, Marvel Comics will publish a comic book featuring a resurrected mutant Diana, Princess of Wales. According to Marvel, the comic is a media-savvy satire on celebrity in which Diana must escape evil Eurotrash. The title? Di Another Day. No, that's not made up either...
...Beckham's face that sells everything from motor oil to cell phones to Japanese chocolates, and a likeness of Beckham's body to which monks in a Thai temple bow in veneration. In Britain, Beckham and his wife Victoria, the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, have replaced Princess Diana as the staple of celebrity culture, adored by young and old, men and women, straight and gay. Last week ace trend spotter Marian Salzman of the advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide identified Beckham--who likes to say how comfortable he is with his feminine side and who has been...
...coat of green paint. Scotland Yard say the incident doesn't raise concerns over security, as he was arrested "within minutes." December 2002 A drunken reveler gets into St. James's Palace - the home of Prince Charles - but is reportedly only arrested when he knocks on the door to Princess Anne's apartments to ask the way to the nearest train station. Police say there was no danger to the royal family, but launch an inquiry into the breach...