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Think of Charles having to steer his longtime squeeze toward Queen Elizabeth at a garden party to make some lame attempt at pretending they can talk civilly ("Mummy, I'm sure you and Camilla are going to have a dreadfully lot to discuss when it comes to horses"). Think of Bush trying to remain good-humored while dealing at a press conference with a trick question that is obviously designed to see if he knows the difference between Austria and Australia. In either situation, it would be perfectly natural for the heir in question to think to himself, "How come...
...Madonna: At Harvard, the Queen of Pop. At all other colleges, a musical pariah...
...bunch, dipping our toes into West Hollywood coffeehouses on Friday nights but sitting awkwardly in corners and hardly talking to anyone, certainly no one older or more flamboyant than ourselves. But Andre and Dave were loud and pushy and funny, and they had great sweaters. Andre called himself the queen of Eliot House; he and his friends, he said, were ground zero of the revolution. He towered over me and confounded me, teasing everyone and calling me "girl" and cackling in the dining hall without an inhibition in the world. I drank in their confidence and self-assurance. When...
...beloved computer and discover that telnet works fine overseas. Unfortunately, general computer skills don't survive the trans-Atlantic journey quite as well. France uses the "AZERTY" keyboard, rather than the QWERTY keyboard that I know, love and use to touch type. In the States, I am Queen of the keyboard; without QWERTY I am humiliatingly clueless...
...inclination for people to think about others who are less fortunate. There is no real community, no downtime, no nurturing of the soul in Peters' business model--just workers hunched over a monitor, constantly "improving" themselves for the next level of business. Will embracing technology automatically make you a queen bee--or will you still be a drone? WILLIAM T. LAYHER Somerville, Mass...