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...says Simon Perry, London bureau chief for PEOPLE magazine (a sister publication of TIME). "Now when we look at Diana, it's through the eyes of the people she left behind, and that's the Princes, William and Harry." Iconic pictures of her are still worth a tidy sum for those photographers lucky enough to have taken them, whether they?re grainy paparazzi snaps of Diana on holiday or intimate portraits like those shot by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair five months before she died. Every year around this time, he says, Testino is inundated with requests for his photos...
Welcome to the communal table. Except for the occasional dim sum pig-out, Americans have traditionally liked their public dining experiences to be private, favoring booths, banquettes and sometimes even whole rooms that separate them from others. But lately, whether out of a modern need for community or an ancient urge to break bread in company, sharing dining space with strangers is appealing to a growing number of diners at all levels of the food chain. "I eat so many meals rushed, in front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with...
...Inflating Football Salaries I was flabbergasted to learn the sum of sponsorship money pocketed annually by the Premier League, National Basketball Association and National Football League [May 21]. The salaries of top players are augmented the same way. The majority of us would take a lifetime to make the amount of money these players earn in just one week. It is truly astonishing. I wonder whether they deserve such large sums. Wouldn't the money be better spent combatting poverty, global warming, aids? The list goes on and on. Lee Boon Siew, Kuala Lumpur...
...Laughs.] I guess the sum of all my novels would be the answer to that question. It is pretty hard to do the human condition in a couple of lines, but I think there is room for optimism...
...Steve Steinour, CEO of Citizens Financial Group and the father of two adopted children. "We knew from experience that for most Americans, adoption is an unaffordable option," he says. Citizens-- a bank based in Providence, R.I., with 25,000 employees--provides up to $21,000 in aid, a sum that helped put it at the top of the Dave Thomas Foundation's list of adoption-friendly workplaces. Though Steinour says retention is much greater among the 100 or so workers who have used the benefits, he admits that this impact is hard to quantify for shareholders. "You can't translate...