Prince Harry gets the greatest gift of all – a fleece

Prince Harry and Jersey Shore – the kind of team-up that should set alarm bells ringing and bring back memories of the prince’s last visit to a US party town, which resulted in pics of his bottom taking over the internet. But Harry wasn’t on the shore to party with Snooki and co, he was there to show his concern and support for the communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

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Palestinian Border Protests: The Arab Spring Model for Confronting Israel

After more than 100 Palestinians breached Israel’s border with Syria on Sunday, knocking down a fence and striding into a village in the Golan Heights, overmatched Israeli security forces scrambled to glean what they could from the protesters who had just, without so much as a sidearm, penetrated farther into the country than any army in a generation.

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Books: The Joys And Sorrows Of Amy Tan

A not-so-funny thing happened to Amy Tan back in 1993 on the day of a gala premiere of The Joy Luck Club, the film adaptation of her phenomenally successful 1989 first novel. “Annette Bening was introducing the screening,” Tan recalls, seated in the elegant eight-room condominium decorated in what she jokingly calls “Marco Polo Chinese,” in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights, where she and her husband Louis De Mattei have lived for nearly 11 years.

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