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Prince Harry in the Press

The uproar over pictures of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform to a friend's party has reached a fever pitch in England, and nowhere is the rhetoric more heated than in the pages of London's tabloid papers.

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Not exactly acting the part of a prince.

Prince Harry is in trouble again, this time for playing dress up: Invited to a friend's costume party -- themed "colonials and natives" -- he decided, for reasons unknown, to go with a Nazi soldier costume. The Sun newspaper ran a cover shot of the young prince from the side, glass in hand and a Nazi Swastika band prominently on his upper arm. Once the paper hit the streets on Thursday, a public outcry began. The paper's own editorial begins the coverage, and the paper's Web site is already carrying angry emails -- some directed at Harry, others at the coverage he's receiving. Both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Star have also chimed in. Just wait until tomorrow, when London's other tabloids have time to react to the scoop.

Riding the Waves off Cape Horn

We've linked to her before, but in case you've forgotten, Ellen MacArthur is trying to break the record for the fastest ever solo-sailing circumnavigation of the globe. Today, she is in the process of rounding Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America. Known for its heavy seas, the Cape is apparently living up to its reputation. Ellen admitted on Wednesday morning, "I realised these are certainly some of the biggest seas I've been in." Her progressed is being followed by the world media and hourly updates, including video clips, pictures and transcripts of her telephone calls to her shore team can be found on her Web site. So far, she has a five day lead on the current record holder Francis Joyon, but she is now losing time having to tack against heavy headwinds. Just one more ocean to go....

CBS Journalists Canned over National Guard Story

The suffix "-gate", taken originally from the Watergate scandal of the Nixon era, is a favorite of the American media when it comes to scandals. Thus Iran-Contra-gate, Monicagate, and most recently, Memogate. After it turned out that an incriminating memo at the center of a CBS report critical of Bush's service record turned out to be a fake, the public (and the current administration) were out for blood. Now, four people involved in putting together the story are looking for work, and an internal CBS report says the mistake was due to the confluence of pressure and ego, creating a "perfect storm." Some see it as a setback for mainstream American media, while others wonder why anchor Dan Rather -- who has since retired -- wasn't fired, too.

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