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...officers lost his hat, went up to one of the students whom he thought had it and took him outside [of the rink]," Lacey said...
...incident began during the third period of the December 8 contest, when Cornell Public Safety Officers entered the crowd to apprehend a foul character who had tied a dead chicken to the Harvard goal, according to Marc S. Lacey, a reporter for the Cornell Daily...
...Edward VII situation," referring to her great-grandfather, who had spent much of his life ogling ballerinas and sipping champagne before Queen Victoria's death belatedly brought him to the throne at the age of 59. "It might be wise," said the Queen, according to her biographer Robert Lacey, "to abdicate at a time when Charles could do better." Said Philip jokingly: "You might be right. The doctors will keep you alive so long...
Twenty years have passed since the meeting at which the Queen discussed the possibility of abdication, and hardly anyone ever mentions that anymore. "It is clear to me that the question of abdication has been ruled out totally," says Lacey. "Charles may be unhappy in his role, but it is the function of the British royal family to express the intangibles of life, including stability. Since modern British monarchs have no executive role, the sovereign has reverted back to the primitive and magical role, symbolic of society's continuing...
...part Charles' restlessness may reflect a desire to redefine his public role. Observes Royal Biographer Robert Lacey: "He has to develop a strategy for the ten to 20 years before he takes the throne. He cannot spend them politely expressing interest in problems." The Prince, indeed, seems on the verge of becoming an activist. He spends considerable time and effort on the "youth initiative" of the Prince's Trust, a program that helps young people start their own businesses. Troubled by high British unemployment rates, he would like to extend the scheme to every major city in the country...