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...have to be 5’6, 110 pounds, have perfect turnout and great extensions naturally. I wasn’t willing to deal with that. I also wanted to attend Harvard and needed more time to study, so I quit ballet right before my senior year at [Buckingham Browne and Nichols]. One year later, at Harvard’s pre-frosh weekend, I noticed a ballroom dancing show listed in our events pamphlet. Interested, I decided to go. Standing in the back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner...
...first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first...
...DERELICTLONDON.COM When you're done with the London Eye and Buckingham Palace, turn to Paul Talling's detail-packed blog on obscure pockets of the British capital. He'll take you on a fascinating journey of derelict pubs, World War II bunkers, abandoned buildings, and more. Chances are you won't find any of this information in the guidebooks...
...Long-Term World Travel, is a crucial reference for any budget wanderer. He started his companion blog the same year and provides almost daily updates from wherever he is (at press time, it was Paris). DERELICTLONDON.COM When you're done with the London Eye and Buckingham Palace, turn to Paul Talling's detail-packed blog on obscure pockets of the British capital. He'll take you on a fascinating journey of derelict pubs, World War II bunkers, abandoned buildings, and more. Chances are you won't find any of this information in the guidebooks. GRIDSKIPPER.COM Here's one for those...
...blast. Khan, a well-liked adviser to children with learning disabilities, had rebelled against his family by rejecting an arranged marriage in favor of a woman he had met at university. His mother-in-law campaigned for the rights of Islamic women and had earned an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party for her community work. Hussain, 18, was not a very good student and liked to "clown around," according to his classmates. A deeper look tells a darker story that is becoming sadly familiar in Britain and the rest of Europe: of a disaffected younger generation drifting into...