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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Harry's War | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...information about Medieval Europe. But McCormick has found yet another way to make his class stand out: by offering Skype office hours every Monday from 10-11 p.m. Skype, a software program that enables users to make phone calls over the Internet and communicate via instant messaging, is a popular program that many college students use to talk cheaply with friends overseas. While some History 1101 students were apprehensive about McCormick’s unique office hours, others were more appreciative: “I thought it was cool—an innovative idea that shows how he is trying...

Author: By Lindsey M. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Add Skype Contacts, Increase GPA | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

Anyone living in America, particularly those accustomed to the televised exchanges between Hillary and Barack, would have been surprised by the Spanish presidential debate on Tuesday night between the incumbent Socialist president of the government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and his Popular Party (PP) rival, Mariano Rajoy. As in any close race, there were plenty of violent accusations flying around; yet the Spanish leaders were not afraid to cite hard statistics and read past quotations to each others’ face. Instead of telling compelling stories about single mothers, displaced workers, and war veterans, they brought graphs...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Time Is (Still) On Your Side | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

Hillary Clinton's popular vote victories in Texas and Ohio fundamentally change the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in at least one important way: She's still in the race for the nomination. Clinton's long, arduous campaign might have ended abruptly if Obama delivered a knockout blow in either state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Wins Big, but Math Is Troubling | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

Hatim H. Eltayeb ’09 said that hooking smoking is popular among Harvard students because of its social component...

Author: By Elliot Ikheloa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studies Expose Health Hazards of Hookah Use | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

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