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Given the extent of Diana's injuries, her death was inevitable. Stories about what might have happened only cause further pain for the families of those involved. Let the dead rest in peace. SIAN MORTON Pambula, Australia...
...party opposes privatization, but Zyuganov stops short of saying he would renationalize every industry; he does not want to scare away foreign investors. He would rebuild the shattered armed forces, and perhaps most ambitiously, he wants to re-create the Soviet Union or "a great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
Stylish, in fact, hardly begins to describe Florine Stettheimer's work. It is besotted with style as an end in itself, and its delight in quotation naturally endears it to postmodernist taste. Sometimes it's tea-party Ensor, without the bilious satire; sometimes it's Rus sian ballet. There are traces of Elie Nadelman, Odilon Redon, Watteau, Hieronymus Bosch and an over-the-top capriccio of swimmers in some celestial spa titled Natatorium Undine, 1927. Her painting of a spring sale at Henri Bendel's, with ladies squabbling over the merchandise like angry hummingbirds, resembles a Pompeian grotesque translated into...
When Diana realizes Deric has met another woman he likes, the blind novelist, Aileen Armitage (Sian Thomas), she encourages him to pursue the relationship. Diana secretly meets with Aileen, they realize they have a great deal in common, and she convinces Aileen to pursue Deric after she dies. A beautiful, loving sacrifice, it proves the unconditional nature of Diana's love for Deric...
...important environmental battle seemed to be lost, a catastrophe imminent. "We were terribly disappointed that the ship broke apart before we could salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern...