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...younger Al Fayed, who split his early years between Alexandria and the French Riviera, was reared in a rarefied world of international wealth. He attended Switzerland's tony Le Rosey school and Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Dodi moved easily among his family's 11 homes, in locations as far-flung as Manhattan, St.-Tropez and Gstaad. He had use of family helicopters and his father's yacht. In recent years he was one of the jet set's most renowned hosts, throwing parties in Beverly Hills populated by such celebrities as Tony Curtis, Farrah Fawcett and Robert...
...assignments; and he is the person O.J. calls every night from prison. Last Thursday morning Cochran, 57, a devout Baptist, even called his troops into a prayer meeting in a room at the L.A. County courthouse. ``It became very emotional,'' says Cochran of the session led by the Rev. Rosey Grier, the former Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle who is Simpson's friend and spiritual adviser. Cochran then directed each member of the legal team to go to Simpson's cell and personally reaffirm his allegiance to the defendant. ``All you are left with during a crisis is your conduct...
...equal of Michael Milken," declared Monty Hall, who hosted the former television game show Let's Make a Deal and is an officer of the Variety Clubs International children's charity. Hall said Milken has donated generously to the charity through the Milken Family Foundations (estimated assets: $350 million). Rosey Grier, an ex-football player who works with impoverished children in Los Angeles, noted that Milken has taught math in public schools and helped raise money for minority businesses. Wrote Grier: "I recognized in him a deep desire to help inner-city residents break free of the strangling choke-hold...
...Younger began the legend, the first player from a black college to make it to the National Football League. Tank returned to the rural school of 4,000 in north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...
...Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed him off to Le Rosey, an exclusive Swiss boarding school. By then, as the Shah wrote in his 1961 autobiography, he already had a mystical sense of mission and was convinced by visions that he had been "chosen by God" to save his country...