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...cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Tabb Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George. His grandmother Queen Victoria, as most people have forgotten, emphatically was not popular throughout her reign. For years after she married German Prince Albert, his extreme unpopularity and her impetuous flouting of her Prime Ministers made the Crown a target for protests and lampoons. After Albert's death his widow's frantic seclusion, her transports of grief for years on end and her eventual recluse neglect...
...really lazy,” he says with a mix of honesty and humility. Even at the prestigious first-round selection Phi Beta Kappa dinner honoring 25 juniors, he was humble. “I was just blown away by how I was by far the stupidest person in the room,” he says...
...more transparent to students,” Matthew J. Margolin, president of Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government, wrote in an e-mail. Margolin said that before, few students wrote letters, and only when professors were up for tenure. Now, the administration hopes, students will provide feedback year round...
...Everyone in the first round was really putting everything into it, and, as a result, we could get momentum from the very beginning and really crush them,” co-captain Chloe Stinetorf said. “I don’t think there was a point in the competition where Tufts had any kind of momentum against...
...redoubts, the rebels promised to disclose their troop locations and both sides renewed their assurances of unfettered access to aid workers. Just two weeks later, in this dusty trading town precariously situated between government, rebel and janjaweed strongholds, those tentative steps toward d?tente collapsed, plunging Darfur into a new round of violence. And, as ever, it has been civilians like Maka that have borne the brunt...