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...more enduring source of anger, says the associate, is that Charles "remembers the ridicule he took for his ideas from people who now take credit for them." Princes are allowed to be both passionate and petulant. Constitutional monarchs are best if boringly bland. Tristram Hunt, a historian at Queen Mary College, London, thinks Charles has already strayed beyond propriety by frequently lobbying ministers with his ideas and letting some of his disagreements with government policy - over genetically modified food, for example - become obvious. As King, says Hunt, "I'm skeptical he'll suddenly be able to throw away his beliefs...
...Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
Julia C. Chan ’06 House: Lowell Concentration: History of Art and Architecture Style Idols: Queen Elizabeth I and Milla Jovovich. My style in three words: Boyish, borrowed, blas?...
Cloud didn't use much nuance in saying my film Hedwig and the Angry Inch was "a cult musical about the relationship between a drag queen and a young singer" and includes a scene in which a teenage boy is "masturbated by an adult." Is that what it really boils down to for Cloud? He might have also touched on why it has already found favor with many scholars. I've been told by young people of all persuasions that Hedwig is appealing because it is an exploration of personal identity outside traditional straight, gay or even transgender definitions...
...English attitudes toward Jews in the 16th and 17th century. Just as the anti-Semitism of the era is reflected in Shylock’s character, the tumult of 1599 can be seen in Shakespeare’s works from that year. Political unrest gripped England, as the aging Queen received threats of assassination without an apparent heir. And the military, led by the doomed Earl of Essex, mobilized in response to rebellions in Ireland. These unsettling events seem to parallel the themes of “Henry the Fifth” and “Julius Caesar?...