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Diana attended West Heath, a boarding school in Kent, where she excelled in sports and recorded a middling result on standard exams known as O Levels. At 16, she spent twelve weeks at a Swiss finishing school, primarily to learn to ski but also to brush up on French, cooking, sewing and typing. Nothing much here for a résumé, but perfectly fine, thanks, for the sort of genteel, pass-the-time employment that came Diana's way: governess, cook, nanny, kindergarten teacher...
...Reagan's approval, Bush presided over two Cabinet meetings, carefully taking his accustomed seat and leaving the President's chair empty to symbolize the temporary nature of his enhanced authority. The Vice President also conferred with Netherlands Premier Andreas van Agt and Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagiel-ski, who had come to Washington to see Reagan...
...given day, Ski Racer Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., cannot be sure of beating his own family: his twin brother Steve is just as talented and only slightly less consistent than he. But last week Phil became the first American in history to win the sport's highest award, the World...
...triumph over his friend Stenmark, gold medal winner in the giant slalom at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, had been a long time coming. He was second to Stenmark in World Cup points in 1978, and third for each of the past two seasons. No one on the ski tour doubted that this likable, easygoing American had the ability or the courage to win. He had gritted out last year's third-place finish, and a silver medal in slalom at Lake Placid, on an ankle shattered the year before and still mending...
...There is general acknowledgment that Stenmark, by specializing, has carried slalom and giant-slalom skills further than Killy ever did. New three-event men, presumably, will not be able to reach Stenmark's brilliant but relatively narrow perfection. (Why not add a fourth event, exasperated slalomists grumble-like ski jumping, after all. Or a fifth-say, a 50-km cross-country race...