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...ordinary life and he's eager for more. "It's bizarre," he mused in an interview recorded during his tour of duty. "I'm out here now, haven't really had a shower for four days, haven't washed my clothes for a week and everything feels completely normal." He spoke of how fun it was to spend time with a "bunch of normal guys," and, revealingly, commented wistfully, "I think this is about as normal as I'm ever going...
Given the unprecedented military and media operation needed to create this simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real...
...reputation as a playboy prince. The same fate threatened Harry until his star turn in the theater of war recast him as a hero and champion recruiter for Britain's armed forces. Just a few nights on the tiles could dent his new-minted image. It would be normal behavior for any young soldier on R&R, but normality isn't and can never be the province of princes...
...hearth of Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin, Harvard’s first openly gay House masters, might seem ironic.Inside the residence, Eck meanders past the big bay windows lining her living room as she tells me how she and her wife “are really just normal people who lead normal lives.” She smiles as she lifts a picture of the two of them on their wedding day, recounting the fanfare that accompanied her Memorial Church ceremony a few years ago.For many, the Lowell House masters are just one of a string of signs marking...
...team was in tears. Tears of joy, naturally, as Pangilinan touched the wall first with a time of 2:14.69. “Those are big shoes to fill for next year,” Morawski finished. It was a gutsy win on a day with quicker times than normal, a phenomenon that will likely keep Pangilinan out of the NCAA Championships. “The time she had to win the Ivies this year was faster than the time it took to be an All-American back in 2005,” Morawski said...