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...unusually surprising move with broad implications for the future of both Harvard and humanity, the University and Britain's House of Windsor have arranged a swap of their leading image-makers...
Wherever the couple go nowadays, they are watched closely for signs of the state of their union. Time and again during the past year, their four-year- old storybook marriage has been compared with a nighttime soap opera. The plot goes something like this: the House of Windsor, imperturbable on the outside, has become a seething "Palace Dallas" on the inside. The Princess, once known as Shy Di, has been transformed into "Dynasty Di"; and Prince Charles, once dubbed Action Man for his intrepid sky- and skin diving, has become a hermetic, mystical crank...
...mixed. She maintains that she and Princess Anne (though they are as different as grape and grain) have "always hit it off very well." But palace pundits suggested that Anne's decision to go galloping through the Gloucestershire countryside chasing rabbits while Prince Henry was being baptized at Windsor expressed her aloofness from Charles and Diana, as well as pique that she had not been chosen the child's godmother. (There were six godparents, headed by Charles' brother Prince Andrew.) Diana's relationship with her mother-in-law is amiable but not close. "A bit like the Queen...
Diana sometimes finds the tribal rites of the royal family heavy going. For years the holiday schedule has been an inflexible routine: Windsor at Christmas, Balmoral in the summer, a cruise aboard the Britannia to Scotland in August. The family is relentlessly outdoorsy; they like nothing better than to put on their macs and picnic in the chill air of the Scottish Highlands. After the meal, they all go tramping through the heather with a pack of pesky corgis nipping at their heels. Not exactly Diana's idea of a giggle. For her the royal sing-alongs with Princess Margaret...
Faculty telescope director David W. Latham, lecturer on astronomy, speculated that a "pilot error" caused the short circuit, which exposed the observatory to two hours of rain. The water caused no damage to the telescope or to the dome, which was closed manually early Saturday, said study telescope director Windsor A. Morgan...