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...they came into the crowds, Chelsea was, perhaps for the first time since her public life began six years ago, on center stage. She smiled with grace. She worked the rope line. She knelt and talked to the children, a bright-eyed American echo of other countries' princesses. No matter what designs lay behind those pictures, what sympathy they were designed to generate, there were some undeniable realities. The night before, she had had to watch her father admit to something hideously painful. It may not have been a surprise to her, but that makes it no less...
...flip it. Most of the country thinks you are a liar and a cheat. A zealous prosecutor is working overtime to put you into early retirement. Every single night, the comics who truly write the first draft of history spit on you and smile. Your attempts to hide behind the powers of your office have diminished them as a result. Your hands are tied overseas; at home your agenda is dead. Your only daughter is back from college, and whatever you decide to say, you have to explain to her first. Your wife looks...
...knows how. Buffett's empire rests on the beer-soaked foundation of shows like this one in Cincinnati. He presides over the ritual, a short, balding, joyful character charging around the stage, cracking wise and showing off an uncanny ability to sing, play guitar, smile and kick beachballs all at the same time. Scores of those balls and inflatable sharks are bouncing above the crowd; doctors and lawyers are dancing with their children; sales clerks and college kids are swaying with their honeys; and everyone's singing along with the tight, glistening music. It's a giddy, collective delusion--landlocked...
...hair that used to hang in long blond sheets has fallen out; the famously droopy moustache is gone. And though he is 25 years away from the Key West beach-bum days that make up the heart of his myth, he still has gregarious charm, an elfin smile and a bottomless well of stories to tell. That's not the whole picture, of course. "He's incredibly outgoing and confident when he switches it on," says his wife of 21 years, Jane. "But in real life he's shy and reserved." Others describe him as restless and often remote, which...
...legend of Diana is just beginning. The people of Britain are very proud of their beautiful princess, who lit up the world with her unique smile and traveled the globe bringing peace and harmony everywhere she went. FRANK A. LOPEZ Redwood City, Calif...