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With their archaic titles--some are actually called "Coal Porters"--the staff indulges every whim and want of the Royals. Even the beloved Queen mother will send the cooks scouring the stores for fresh strawberries in December, laughing "it's just a little treat." Princess Margaret routinely kept the staff...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Royal Blues | 4/20/1985 | See Source »

The most changed of the five is Mike Wallace. The long months of the Westmoreland libel trial had their cost. Millions of dollars were at stake. But when the general and Wallace met inadvertently, side by side, at a courthouse urinal, Wallace had the feeling they were "partners in misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch Five Who Dominate Tv News | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Just over a month later, on the night of Jan. 28, 45 pop stars got together in a Los Angeles studio to record a simple anthem of compassion. The song, We Are the World, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured, besides the vocal talents of Belafonte and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Forty-Five Voices | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Federal dollars are not always a measure of the government's concern for the poor, Kemp said. "Compassion is not measured by how many people get food stamps but by how few. We cannot create a desert and give you a glass of water and call that fairness."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kemp Plugs Boundless Optimism, Boundless Growth | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

If the Harvard Corporation wishes to continue abetting white rule in South Africa, it should do so without meretricious displays of moral concern and human compassion. Intrinsically worthless projects such as the specious "new initiatives" serve only to soothe the consciences of those who collaborate with tyranny, mislead the uninformed...

Author: By Tina E. Smith, | Title: On Harvard's South | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

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