Word: britannia
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...British papers, The Telegraph, made an unflattering comparison between the Williams sisters of tennis and the Harvard ‘A’ and ‘B’ coxed fours in the Britannia Cup, in describing the ‘B’ boat’s comfortable victory...
...attend the wake in the twins’ hometown of Greenwich, Conn. The twins carried on to Henley, with Tyler serving as one of the team’s spares and Cameron as a member of the Harvard ‘A’ four that reached the Britannia Cup final...
...head-to-head races from July 3 to July 8. The only Harvard boat that lost, the Harvard ‘A’ coxed four, fell to none other than the Harvard ‘B’ coxed four in the finals of the Britannia Challenge Cup. The rowers from the fours all came from the Crimson’s undefeated second varsity boat...
...gratitude is flowing. The crowds greeting the Queen in her recent tours of the country are big and kind: 20,000 in Falmouth, 30,000 in Newcastle (including a streaker with "Rude Britannia" painted on his pale buttocks). Partly this is sympathy for a woman who has just lost her sister, Princess Margaret, who died at age 71 in February, and mother, who died Easter weekend at 101. Perhaps, after the throngs that lined London's streets for the Queen Mother's funeral, it also represents a surprised rediscovery that the royal family-not just charismatic black sheep Diana...
...husband Prince Philip toured Newcastle, local resident Brynn Richard Reed expressed his feelings in a less conventional way. Jogging alongside their Rolls-Royce, Reed waved and shouted, "Yoo-hoo!" But chances are, what caught the royals' attention was Reed's unavoidable nudity. That and the words RUDE BRITANNIA scrawled across his buttocks. Police dragged him away, but he may have given the Queen the greatest gift of all--the chance to be embarrassed by someone other than her own children...