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...thing can be said with certainty: Diana will go on being famous. She will also probably continue some version of what she is supremely good at: working with disadvantaged or afflicted people. She knows this is her area of strength; that is why she has said she wants to be "queen of people's hearts." Lately, doubtless because of her stressful situation, she has not been very active, at least in the public eye. After the divorce she will need some kind of channel for her enormous energies. Her detractors never tire of saying that she will...
...favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 5536. But majority opinion is that such drops will turn out to be only the latest of many fleeting downdrafts. Most analysts, rightly or wrongly, rate...
According to Rachel B. Tiven '96-'97, Hillel is also trying to raise money to send to Magen David Adom, Israel's version of the Red Cross...
...trying to clear her name of the wrongdoing of her former husband. The Congresswoman has blamed her estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz, for funneling nearly $2 million in illegal funds into her campaign through an alleged check-kiting scheme. According to TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty, "Her version of events was not really selling." The former corporate lawyer and Gingrich favorite had little chance of reelection anyway, said Tumulty. "We some amazing resurrections but this would have to be a doozy," she said. "If you look at polls, the voters of Utah thought she was at least partially...
...brandy Alexander that Mary Richards told Lou Grant she'd like during her job interview on the Mary Tyler Moore show, a series that was a lot more acute about the elusive glamour of TV news. But Up Close and Personal is The Way We Were Hollywood version. Long before its ending (or rather, the endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between the Bosnia coverage and the story...