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...People's Princess Thank you for commemorating Diana, Princess of Wales, and her untimely death 10 years ago with a heartfelt cover story [Aug. 27]. The saddest aspect of Diana's destiny is that if Prince Charles had devoted to Diana one-tenth the affection and support he has lavished on Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Diana would probably still be alive, and the two would be a formidable team as popular parents of two royal princes and as king- and queen-in-waiting. Diana was an invaluable asset to the British monarchy and a leading light for many humanitarian causes...
...season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up - and the odds that that he or she has a felony record are down. That, for those of you who were too drowned in multimedia Harry Potter to notice, is the news from the real town where some estimate every tenth person is a witch...
...that half of his establishment's profits come from hookah pipes and that he is planning to lay off staff as a result of the ban. From this month onward shisha smokers will be forced to relocate themselves outside, where Al-Shishawa can at present accommodate only a tenth of its customers. Other cafes that don't serve food face complete closure...
...that demonstrators wear white - a symbol, they suggested, of the purity of the city's democratic hopes. It would have made a demonstrative change from the ubiquitous red Hong Kong and Chinese flags as the city marked - with parties, fireworks and a visit from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao - the tenth anniversary of the territory's return to China...
...Some of these movies (Rat, Feet) I loved; some (Paprika, Aachi) I studied with a cooler, appraisal admiration; and Queer Duck I thought just silly, sublimely so. But often, as I watched, I wondered: Why can't the makers of live-action films take one-tenth the care these guys did? Why are so many animated features bursting with wild imagination, coherent characters, glorious visualizing - all we should expect from film - and "real" movies aren...