NEWS
September 1, 2007
BUSINESS DOW +119.01 13,357.74 NASDAQ +31.06 2,596.36 S&P +16.35 1,473.99 SUN INDEX +4.24 347.40 NATIONAL Scandal embarrasses GOP At the start of the week, it was unlikely that many people outside of Idaho and Washington, D.C., had heard of Sen. Larry E. Craig. But after Monday's disclosure of a guilty plea in a men's-room sex sting, Craig became the target of jokes and a national embarrassment to a Republican Party facing an election next year. pg 1A Warner won't run in 2008 Republican Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, one of the most influential voices on military matters in Congress, announced he would not run for re-election, paving the way for a battle between Democrats and Republicans to claim his seat.
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By Sally Voris | June 14, 1999
DOUG ULMAN always knew he wanted to teach. He planned to teach history, but a twist of fate has channeled his strong spirit into deeper waters.Now he teaches about cancer.The Ellicott City resident graduated from Centennial High School in 1995. He was a dynamo: soccer team captain, Howard County Student Government Association president, student representative to the school board.Ulman was home for the summer after finishing his freshman year at Brown University when his life changed.Then 19, he was jogging on a hot August night with his older brother, Ken Ulman, when he felt a constriction in his chest.
NEWS
By Eric Siegel | February 6, 1999
A federal judge in Baltimore has rejected a request by the father of Princess Diana's boyfriend for classified National Security Agency documents he believes could shed light on the fatal car crash that killed the couple.In a six-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Frederic N. Smalkin said it would be "extremely ill-advised" to grant the request of billionaire businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, who might have wanted to present the documents in an inquiry by a French magistrate into the 1997 crash in Paris that killed his son Dodi Al Fayed, Princess Diana and the couple's driver, Henri Paul.
FEATURES
By Los Angeles Times | March 1, 1999
As People celebrates its 25th anniversary, the weekly that wrote the book on personality journalism is more popular and profitable than ever, with a circulation of 3.6 million and another estimated nine pass-along readers for every issue sold.People leads the industry with annual ad revenues of nearly $627 million.Here are People's 10 best-selling newsstand covers:1. "Good-bye Diana," Sept. 22, 1997: 2.992 million sales2. "John Lennon, 1940- 1980: A Tribute," Dec. 22, 1980: 2.644 million3.
ENTERTAINMENT
By John E. McIntyre | September 19, 1999
"Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess," by Sally Bedell Smith. Times Books. 368 pages. $24.Diana Spencer, later Diana, Princess of Wales, appears to have lived more for other people than for herself, to a degree unusual even for celebrities.When she became the bride of Prince Charles in 1981, the heady combination of Cinderella wish-fulfillment and Anglophilia got thousands of Americans out of bed at 5 a.m. to watch nuptials ever after described tediously in the press as a "fairy-tale wedding."
FEATURES
By Sarah Pekkanen | July 19, 1999
Two years ago, John F. Kennedy Jr. sat down to reflect on celebrity, death and the existence of God.It wasn't the first time we were offered an intimate glimpse of the 38-year-old presidential namesake. From the time he was a toddler, his life's landmarks have been publicly shared: his salute at his father's funeral; his exuberant exit from a church following his 1996 wedding to Carolyn Bessette; his gentle touch of his mother's tombstone.We were also privy to his mundane moments: his shirtless Frisbee games; his Central Park spat with Bessette; his strolls with his dog, Friday.
NEWS
By Mary Johnson | July 29, 1999
If you check into "California Suite," as depicted by the Pasadena Theatre Company, you will find fascinating company among the guests in Rooms 201 and 203 of the Beverly Hills Hotel.Neil Simon's characters are amusing, wise, witty, touching, and introspective as they explore past and present relationships with friends, lovers and mates.The first segment, "Visitor from New York," is classic Simon with Hannah's put-downs of former husband Billy, once a New Yorker, now a youthful and fit Californian.
FEATURES
By Bert Roughton Jr. | September 6, 1998
LONDON - On his swim trunks are the letters "W.O.W."They stand for "William of Wales," but the monogram also pretty well sums up the popular sentiment here for the eldest son of the late Princess Diana - the most likely heir to her title of lead character in the continuing national melodrama.It is hard to look at William, with his blond locks, shy ways and brilliant blue eyes, and not see an image of his mother.He has demonstrated a grasp of her "common" touch, while showing signs that he is developing a charisma of his own. On the day of his mother's funeral last year, William graciously received flowers handed him by mourners outside Buckingham Palace, a notable personal touch given the awkwardness exhibited by his royal relatives.
FEATURES
By David Zurawik | August 26, 1998
You might think NBC has invented a new programming genre.Monday night, it will present a highly publicized two-hour special about Diana, Princess of Wales, on the first anniversary of her death. The program is produced and, in the words of NBC, "lovingly presented" by Richard Attenborough, who won an Academy Award for his direction of a little film called "Gandhi" and was made a lord by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993. NBC and Attenborough are calling "Diana" a "documentary tribute," which might seem confusing to some viewers.
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By David Zurawik | November 7, 1998
There is a scene in the CBS miniseries "Mama Flora's Family" that features Flora Palmer (Cicely Tyson) at age 69 walking into a Tennessee coffee shop, attempting to integrate its lunch counter.As the scene started to unfold, my first thought was that I'd been here before. And I had, with Tyson as Miss Jane Pittman integrating a water fountain in the acclaimed 1974 made-for-TV movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."And the model for Pittman, according to director John Korty, was Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus.You might think that's bad: television just recycling the same stories over and over, seemingly with no new ideas.