Word: knighting
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...rural English estate, swooping in on his trusty steed. But when Prince William flew a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter to Kate Middleton's garden earlier this month, he should have known that his romantic gesture wouldn't lead to a fairytale ending. Rather than emerging as the knight in shining armor, William has drawn criticism for his personal use of military craft and reopened a controversy in Britain about his and his brother's privileged role in the armed forces during a time...
...novels written in comic-book format.TIME is hardly alone in assuming that the country is ready for comic book culture. This summer, Hollywood will try to replicate the success of recent movies inspired by superhero comics. “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight,” and “The Incredible Hulk” will all shoot to become the next “Spider-Man 3” at the box office.So what’s a cultured Harvard student to do? They don’t teach you about...
...Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, and author of “A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World,” how do you feel about being the one “supreme” knight among all the other knights? CAA: I think a better title would be a “good” knight...
...quickly becoming the Golden Knights’ nightmare, took a pass from junior Sarah Vaillancourt and fired it into the top right corner of the net to put the Crimson up, 1-0, heading into the second intermission.Chute also scored two goals against Clarkson when the Golden Knights visited Bright in November.Energized by Chute’s tally, Harvard came out hard in the third period and didn’t rest until it had sucked the life out of Clarkson.The Crimson got its only power-play opportunity of the afternoon at 3:00 in the third, when Golden Knight...
...tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed in a Molotov cocktail. For the mourners, Vujovic was simply doing his duty as a Serb by opposing Western...