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...serious for the monarchy were barbs aimed squarely, as Diana so often did in life, at Prince Charles. The most lurid is an allegation that an aide to Charles had raped George Smith, the Prince's valet, which Charles was then supposed to have hushed up. This lost some steam when police said they had investigated and that Smith had twice made similar charges that could not be substantiated. There is also a claim that his aides sold gifts Charles disliked, reportedly to the tune of $150,000 a year, and took a cut of the proceeds. Thrown...
...masseuse led me to a garden bungalow, where she massaged my knotted muscles with aromatic oils, then polished my skin with lulur, a traditional exfoliating paste made from pounded rice, turmeric and local spices. After a soak in a rose petal milk bath, I finished in the cedar-scented steam room. Relaxed, oiled and burnished, I floated blissfully back to my hotel on a curry-scented cloud. Had anyone asked, I would have married the first person to propose...
...Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
Haller sidles up to the judges’ table with two brews, a porter and a steam beer. He is proud of both, but it’s the porter he’s counting on to impress the judges. “The porter turned out not so bad,” he says. The steam beer comes under heavy scrutiny from the judges. “What kind of yeast did you use?” Meyers asks. “Was it specifically a steam beer yeast?” No, the brewing store was out. Slesar...
...that it and nine others agreed to pay about $1 billion to fund independent research. And although regulators consider Salomon's divide a good first step, ultimately they are likely to demand still deeper cuts. INDICATORS Feeling Fragile U.S. and European consumers may be running out of steam. In the U.S., the Conference Board consumer confidence index crashed from 93.7 to a nine-year low of 79.4, while surveys in Germany, France and the U.K. also showed a loss of faith in the economy. Mario Vs. Super Mario The score was Mario Monti 1, Nintendo €149 million...