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Life as a royal, however, was not a role she coveted. "You'll be a lucky fellow if she accepts you," King George V is said to have warned his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, when he embarked upon courting the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth. Sure enough, a persistent rumor has it that she rejected the prince's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 14th year of a quiet marriage and were...
...column “Albert Speer at Harvard” was insulting and morally obscene. To compare the Cuban regime with that of the Nazis—or even with that of Stalin’s Soviet Union—is to show the worst kind of specious moral equivalence...
...crude polemic by Ross G. Douthat ’02 depicting Fidel Castro as equivalent to Adolf Hitler and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Mario Coyula as the equal of Albert Speer (Column, “Albert Speer at Harvard,” March 4) deserves condemnation on at least three grounds...
...Albert S. Cho ’02, BGLTSA co-chair in 2000, makes a similar argument...
...specifics of Coyula-Cowley’s politics matter less than the fact that he is a willing, life-long functionary of a totalitarian state, and is therefore complicit in its crimes. If he is not directly responsible for them—well, in 1937, an architect named Albert Speer was not directly responsible for Nazi atrocities; indeed, he would always claim ignorance of them. But no one offered him a position at Harvard...