Word: queens
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...Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, has tracked 75 individuals who have contributed to Clinton's various campaigns or, since 1992, to the Democratic Party. They have all been rewarded with a stay in the White House, most of them in either the Lincoln Bedroom, right, or the Queen's Bedroom. Among the donors are such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($236,500, Plus $44,850 from his companies), Barbra Streisand ($81,500), Chevy Chase ($55,250), Tom Hanks ($5,250), Richard Dreyfuss ($3,850) and Mary Steenburgen ($2,000). But the top five...
...shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...late Malcolm Muggeridge, British literary curmudgeon, on the royal marriage: "Only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince...
...reason, of course, is Wills. The royals cannot give the mother of the future King a settlement that would appear to be niggardly or vengeful. For one thing she has too much popular support, especially among ordinary people. For another the Queen and Prince Charles might someday have to face a powerful young man whose loyalty to his mother could be heightened if he were to feel that she had been mistreated...
...Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case the money could someday return to the Windsors. She does get to keep all personal jewelry she has amassed as Princess of Wales. Also unknown is whether...