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LONDON: There are few precedents for what is happening today. It isn't a state funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated...
...husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears on the cheeks of the girl with corn-silk blond hair sitting beside...
COLORADO'S CALLING A gathering of the world's industrialized powers? It's no big deal to Denver. Last week's Summit of the Eight was only one of many shindigs in the city this June (aside from the somber Timothy McVeigh trial). Some calendar highlights...
...Less somber, but still a fog-shrouded mystery of the sea, is why it is hard to love even the sleekest boat made of fiber glass, or sheet steel, or sprayed ferro-concrete. And why, if you like boats at all, it is hard not to love even a squat, stumpy and probably leaky boat made of wood. Two amiable new books about the perilous beguilement of wood boats are Sea Change, by Peter Nichols (Viking; 238 pages; $23.95) and Sailing in a Spoonful of Water, by Joe Coomer (Picador; 256 pages...
Since its inception in 1927, reading period has stood for more than somber study and tradition. As Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III notes, the system of a one week study period preceding exams was begun at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and later adopted by Harvard...