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...affinities with his mother, William has recently begun to shoulder royal duties. Last January, the increasingly independent William chose to forgo a Swiss ski vacation with his father and brother and stay at Sandringham with the Queen, Prince Philip and a host of junior royals and friends, including his pal and cousin Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne. He apparently has a close relationship with his grandmother, whom he regularly visits at Windsor for Sunday-afternoon tea and chats about his future role. "Relationships with grandchildren are always easier than those with your own children," says someone who knows...
...pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably forgo broadcasting HDTV altogether and instead cram a combination of several standard-definition channels and even some pay-TV programs into the digital pipe. Infuriated public watchdogs see this as sleight of hand. "They get all this spectrum for free, and nobody else had a chance to bid on it," says...
...secret operation. "Our investigation suggests the plan continues today." And then came the witness: John Glenn told Senators that Democratic fundraiser John Huang, the central figure in the investigation, had changed his mind at the last minute and is now willing to testify. Glenn said Huang had offered to forgo immunity on questions of whether he passed economic or classified information on to China while at the Commerce Department, but is still insisting on immunity for testimony on campaign finance and government ethics law issues. Senate Republicans may be leaning towards accepting. Newt Gingrich, who says he wants to know...
...effect, a bare majority voted to separate PBHA from Harvard, to move off campus and forego access to Harvard buildings, give up cooperation with Harvard on fund drives, and forgo regular access to the privileges of a Harvard student organization," said Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol, who serves on the trustees and chairs the Faculty of Arts and Science's Committee on Public Service...
...marijuana study, combined with his botanical research, led Weil to a pivotal choice--one that would determine the direction of the rest of his life. After medical school, he decided, he would forgo the young doctor's traditional apprenticeship as a hospital intern and resident and instead devote his time to traveling through the forests and villages of South America, studying not the great engine of Western medicine but the gentle power of the curative herb. Weil spent more than three years in the field in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and elsewhere, and when he returned...