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After playing on various select and youth teams, Higdon decided to attend prep school at Phillips Andover Academy, where hockey was more of a priority than it was in Connecticut public schools. Higdon captained both the hockey and lacrosse teams at Andover and was named a first-team high school All-American in lacrosse his senior year...
...people are accepted; however, there seems to be one group of students here that is constantly misunderstood and biased against--Southerners. As a Crimson Key tour guide, nothing troubles me more than having to show people that Harvard lists the names of all Harvard students who have died in various wars, except the southern students who died in the Civil War. This only tells me that Harvard must find those students from the South as somehow inferior or different from their northern classmates...
After a while it became hard to find any shots of the Prince and Princess of Wales together. In 1987 enterprising royals watchers figured out that between Sept. 16 and Oct. 27 of that year, they were completely apart. In the various confessionals written by partisans in the '90s, both partners emphasize that their miseries began early and speak of important misgivings before the ceremony even took place...
...period in Charles' youth, Earl Mountbatten, Philip's uncle and a tireless meddler in the family's affairs, acted in place of both Charles' parents. After Mountbatten's death came such gurus as South African-born writer Sir Laurens Van der Post. If Diana turned to various therapies, Charles explored exotic lore, became a "green" and an organic gardener. Before long the tabloids had him talking to his carrots at Highgrove...
...Gingrichism seems spent, as his party's presidential candidates battle it out in the primaries, offering various versions of supply-sideism, populist anticapitalism and everything else other than budget cutting and fiscal restraint. And Bill Clinton? For the moment, he looks like the odds-on favorite for re-election. What a difference a few days make...