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...historic Freshman Union, butter patties on the ceiling and all, or to rip it down in the name of progress and the need for more office space? I had, throughout the planning stages and construction of the Barker Center, favored the preservation of the Union for preservation's sake alone, not having ever eaten in the Union but feeling rather that History is History and should be left as is. All of that feeling went out a shiny, clean window when I entered the new building, but my change in perspective got me thinking...
...centers, which all hire independently, offer a variety of scheduling options. The HBS facility is seeking students to fill regularly scheduled afternoon positions, preferably five days a week "for consistency for the children's sake," Chieppo says. The starting salary is $7.25 per hour...
When the news of the storming of the Bastille reached Versailles, the hapless Louis XVI expressed the hope that this was a mere revolt. "No, sir," replied the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "it's a great revolution." For the sake of the House of Windsor, we must trust that those advising the royal family at this unhappy time will also be blunt. The national outpouring of affection and grief for the "people's princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom...
...fate? Didn't she, by courting the tabloid media, not only bring her fate upon herself, but deserve it? So commentators have begun to speculate, with that instinct for blaming the victim that characterizes the most puritanical sense of justice. By refusing to live a lie for the sake of patriarchal order, Princess Diana exposed the hypocrisy of the Establishment to the glare of commoners. She did not, or could not, play the role of Prince Charles' wife, but chose rather to live by the truth. And the bad luck, the repeated "poor judgment" of the princess in choosing lovers...
Diana had married for love, for the sake of a monarch, for country. But she found love false, her prince unfeeling, herself confused and alone. The future would not be long in coming. "I could see an accident coming, but not one like that," says Fincher, her photographic consultant. "I heard it on the local news," says Kresic. "My daughters cried. It's terrible that she wasn't allowed to have some private life." "I can't believe that she was here, sitting next to me," says his daughter DIJANA, 13. "She always smiled at me. Conqueror of hearts...