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...first trip to the U.S. with the new missus this week. PRINCE CHARLES and the former Camilla Parker Bowles will dine at the White House, take in the World Trade Center site and tour organic farms in California. Charles is hoping the visit will boost tourism to Britain and earn him attention for something besides his romantic life, like his recent work on global warming. "The most important thing is to remain relevant," Charles told 60 Minutes of being a royal. "It isn't easy, as you can imagine." A guy who got his house from his mom, married...
Some bloggers earn their bias the hard way--in the trenches. Military bloggers, or milbloggers in Net patois, post vivid accounts of their tours of Baghdad, in prose covered in fresh flop sweat and powder burns, illustrated with digital photos. "Jason," a National Guardsman whose blog is called justanothersoldier.com, wrote about wandering through one of Saddam Hussein's empty palaces. And Iraqis have blogs: a Baghdad blogger who goes by Salam Pax (dear_raed.blogspot.com) has parlayed his blog into a book and a movie deal. Vietnam was the first war to be televised; blogs bring Iraq another scary step closer...
Many students rightfully came to Harvard to be surrounded by exceptional people. It is sad that students are so quick to label fellow academics with 1600s on their SATs as “exceptional” but not give athletes a chance to earn that title. Harvard is not an institution that focuses exclusively on academics; Harvard breeds an inordinate share of scholars and Nobel laureates, but it also promotes journalism, musicianship, politics, as well as athletics. The College admissions office should stick with the status quo and not alienate athletes as Lowell tried to alienate Jews back in 1920s...
...Amalia Viti of Columbia had a match-high 18 kills, and Shannon Hunzicker recorded 64 assists. “We started making mistakes,” Weiss said, “but Columbia also started getting their system going, so we needed to execute even more so to earn our points.”Contributing to the Crimson’s fast start was freshman Kathryn McKinley, who returned from an injury, and put up 17 kills and 16 digs. After dominating the first game, Harvard won a close second game and looked well on their way to a sweep...
...expect to win these matches here pretty comfortably.” The pairs of Mukundan-Peterzan and Schnitter-Wang also won both their matches yesterday to move on. Singles and doubles action resumes today, with the finals to be held tomorrow. The doubles champion and both singles finalists will earn a berth in the ITA National Collegiate Indoor Championships, which will be held from Nov. 3-6 at the Racquet Club of Columbus, Ohio. —CALEB W. PEIFFER