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...Charles' polo manager, a close friend of Prince Philip's and a cousin of Princess Alice, widow of the Queen's uncle. Andrew and his intended, both now 26, knew each other as children. "They met on the polo fields. But then, doesn't everybody?" said Ferguson's mum, Susan Barrantes, who left home when Sarah was 14 and married an Argentine polo player. (There is some chat about whether he will get a wedding invitation, since Andrew saw action against his countrymen during the bitter war over the Falklands...
Long before the 30-second commercial or the full-page ad, there was the poster. For more than two centuries, the U.S. has been using colorful placards and broadsides to implore the people to do the right thing, from preventing forest fires to keeping mum about military secrets during wartime. Last week 117 examples of this perennial propaganda tool, drawn by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn and Norman Rockwell, went on display at the National Archives in Washington in a new exhibition called "Uncle Sam Speaks." The show will run for a year...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...evening wear she favors slinky numbers with daring back slits or fairy-like gossamer gowns. What is engaging about her sense of style is that she chooses clothes with a touch of wit, even if she occasionally looks like a fashion casualty. After years of seeing the Queen Mum parading around in hats that look as though a bird of paradise had expired on her head and the Queen looking like a dour librarian, even Diana's Di-sasters, as the tabloids call them, are refreshing...
...Mum had personally selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay...