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...wants to leave and he doesn't, Elizabeth sometimes checkmates Philip by sending an equerry with the curt message: "The Queen is leaving." But on other occasions, as when he insisted against her wishes on wearing a plain naval uniform- instead of the trappings of a royal duke at the recent opening of Parliament, Philip's will prevails. His relatively humble upbringingt has given Elizabeth a closer touch with her peopie than her own cloistered past could have permitted...
...Charles, Duke of Cornwall, 4, is eager and always curious. Wide-eyed Princess Anne, 2, always tumbles flat when she curtseys. By 10 a.m. Elizabeth's working day has begun at a Chippendale desk: letters to be read and written, documents to be signed, social schedules to be agreed upon. "She gets to the point with frightening speed and accuracy," says one of her aides...
...editors: In her column, “Stripper Ergo...Rape?” (Apr. 12), Ashton R. Lattimore makes a commendable effort to address the disturbing cultural tendency to “explain” the crime and blame the rape victim. But the Duke lacrosse situation is not, thus far, a Jane Doe case. Lattimore’s concern—that the media firestorm has played a major role in discrediting the alleged victim, an exotic dancer—has been substantially outweighed by the thorough vilification of the ostensibly rich, white, privileged team members and the elitist...
With all of the controversy surrounding the current rape scandal involving the lacrosse team at Duke University, one detail continually makes its way to the forefront of the media storm: The alleged victim is an exotic dancer. Of course, it’s to be expected that people would take at least some notice of this fact, given that it is a crucial part of the sequence of events that explains why she was at the team party in the first place. However, in a troubling number of newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, television discussions, and my own daily conversations...
...weeks ago, three white lacrosse players at Duke were accused of raping a local African-American college student who was hired as a dancer for their off-campus party. Since the story was picked up by the national media, some have criticized media coverage as sensationalistic, urging reporters to limit their coverage of the alleged rape to the facts.The media and the district attorney’s office, however, are not sensationalizing the allegations; rather, they are reporting the facts of the case. And it is an undisputed fact that a rape is alleged to have occurred, and most...