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Kitsch Me, Kate
Love is all Prince William and Kate Middleton need: they’ve asked that charitable donations be made in lieu of gifts. But that doesn’t mean the rest of town isn’t cashing in
Medicine: Through a Stomach Hole
The summer of 1822 Fort Mackinac, Michigan Army and fur-trading post, was a rough, brawling, drunken community of about 5,000 Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi
The Kate Question: More or Less of Diana?
Kate Middleton seems like a nice girl from a solid middle-class background. She’s jolly sensible and keeps her mouth shut, and as far as we can tell, Prince William has found a keeper
Assault on Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is rooted in an uncomfortable reality: that to remedy the effects of past discrimination against blacks and women it is sometimes necessary to discriminate against white men. The Government shied from stating the proposition so boldly, but beginning with the Nixon Administration it put the principle into practice
Why America’s Anglophiles Are Missing the Point of the Royal Wedding
Anglophilia, like pornography, is one of those things that are hard to describe but you know when you see them.
The Royal Wedding: How Much Do Brits Really Care?
Jean Stewart, a 62-year-old retired restaurateur in Arbroath, a town of 20,000 on Scotland’s rugged northeast coast, recently dispatched invitations for a ladies’ tea party to watch the television coverage of the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Catherine Middleton on April 29.
Inside The Church’s Closet
The Rev.
Royal Wedding Walking Tour: In Search of Kate and Wills
On the winding route from friendship to marriage, Prince William and Kate Middleton have transformed mere buildings into monuments of their love.
Monstrously Good The hero’s an ogre and the princess can be almost as gross in the delightfully fractured fairy tale Shrek
Once upon a time, an ogre named Shrek lived in a mythical but nonetheless insalubrious swamp. He was green.