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...widow marched down the aisle with her consoler, the eminently eligible British television star and producer, in a quiet ceremony in Theberton, England. Sellers' children professed outrage. "This only proves her love for my father was paper thin," snapped Michael, 26, who, along with Sarah, 23, and Victoria, 16, is contesting Sellers' will, which leaves nearly all of his $9.6 million estate to Frederick, his fourth wife. The unblushing bride bears them no ill will: "I only hope that one day Peter's children can find themselves as happy as I am today...
...largely skipped over, while Moraes highlights the struggles that have marked Mrs. Gandhi's volatile career. Moraes's narrative of the British-educated hero and heroine is excessively British itself. His obtuse style includes so many allusions to English literature that one might think he were writing about Queen Victoria, not Indira Gandhi. And he might as well be. His presentation of her life is no more than a highly impressionistic collage of his own experience in India during her period of power. He is missing all of the ingredients--detailed research in documents and letters, sensitive and objective analysis...
...most, a theory should, as Clifford Geertz wrote, "anticipate" future development. You imply that Wilson prefers to leave his scientific theory "blurred." In fact, he welcomes "a serious discussion" of his ideas. But seriousness is not present in the manifestoes of either INCAR or Science for the People. Victoria Drake...
Another board member, Victoria Judson, said she favor granting at least seven of the ten permits in return for the River-Harvard St. land. "I want to set up a system where we are encouraging them to build low and moderate income housing," she said...
Alex and I are drinking in a bar in Little Australia, a section of Taipei near the Ambassador Hotel where Australian businessmen go to drink, carouse, hire prostitutes. The bars have names like Victoria Pub. The Ploughman, the Waltzing Matilda. Alex, who is New York Chinese, looks around us at the beaming, red faces of drunken Australians and observes that there is nothing in the whole goddamn place that's written in Chinese. We decide we have to do something very Taiwanese the next day. We take a bus to White Sand Bay, one of two sandy beaches...