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...Princess Di Indignity stalked her like a reporter from Hard Copy. First came Camillagate -- the wide publication of transcripts of a racy phone call between Prince Charles and his mistress -- then further revelations of steamy teletalk between Di and her own Squidgygate pal. As the year progressed, Di became more and more emotionally volatile, and soon after a tabloid ran secret photos of her working out on a weight machine, she announced her partial retirement from public life...
...Bruce Lindsey and former campaign aide Betsey Wright, he issued a signed affidavit in which he insisted that neither he, Perry nor Patterson was offered jobs by Clinton in return for silence. Ferguson and his attorney Robert Batton added an ambiguous wrinkle: in a September phone talk with Clinton, Ferguson asked if the President had ever received a memo from Perry requesting a position on one of the President's councils on drugs. Batton said Clinton was unaware of the request but offered to try to track it down. According to Batton, he asked Ferguson to get in touch with...
Tunis is quiet after midnight, when the phone rings. This is a Yasser Arafat tradition, summoning visitors at all hours to make their way through a gauntlet of steel barricades to a villa in a quiet residential corner of the city. The stucco house looks like any other, except that it is surrounded by young men in jeans, bearing Kalashnikovs, smoking cigarettes. Their job is to keep the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization alive -- and they take it seriously. Male guests are patted down, their pockets emptied, wallets searched. Women are scanned with ultrasensitive metal detectors, their purses % ransacked...
...them, I want to finish their problem sets for them, drape crisp button-downs on them, fold their laundry with them, and throw their old Gatorade bottles away for them. Even when I’m sure it’s been one skipped section or several un-returned phone calls too many, they look lovingly at me (slightly red-eyed from heavy partying) and silently beg, “Save me princess, save me.” We aspiring heroines, we obliging females, we are only too happy to comply.Speaking of royalty, I’m reminded...
...Local indie pop group Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women perform at 12:15am with Jupiter One (9:15), Westward Trail (10:15), and The Everyday Visuals (11:15) opening. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 12:15 a.m. Tickets available cash-only at the door or by phone, (617) 492-BEAR, $9. (DFH)Constantines, The Hold Steady, and Thunderbirds Are Now. This trio of bands hits Cambridge with a mix of subpop and alternative rock. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $12 general...