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...whole thing about Kennedy scared them very, very much. They really thought it would be possible for somebody to be there and want to kill them, because they were just very shocked. The assassination really dented them tremendously - their image of America." - on accompanying the Beatles on their first trip to America (Rolling Stone...
...Friday, the 24-year-old prince begins a two-day tour of New York City, his first international trip as a representative of the British royal family. Among other things, he'll meet with families who lost loved ones on September 11 and visit soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq at Manhattan's Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (See pictures of Prince Harry in Afghanistan...
...while refined Brits hate to talk about money, Harry's secretary announced that the Queen will cover the estimated $40,000 trip out of her own pocket rather than dumping it on the taxpayer. "As it's not a full-fat royal trip," Lowther-Pinkerton said, "the Queen has very graciously offered to foot the bill, which is very kind of her." It's also a good p.r. move. In recent weeks Britain's Parliament has been engulfed in scandal after a national newspaper revealed that scores of parliamentarians used taxpayer money to cover personal expenses - including...
...event, the Prince has already proven himself a bit of a recessionista. While his father Prince Charles reportedly chartered a private jet to the tune of $480,000 for his 2005 trip to America, Harry has booked commercial flights for this journey. According to Lowther-Pinkerton, "It's just Harry...
...analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. In 2002, Kim Jong Il made a well-publicized trip to China, and in Shanghai - the country's showcase of development - the Dear Leader famously said it was clear that Chinese economic reform had "worked." Less well known is that on the same trip, Kim said that North Korea's unique characteristics were such that economic reform would not work there...