Junor writes that the two princes seem to have a very close relationship, often laughing at and teasing one another. When they did an interview about a time when they lived together for six months as adults, Prince William complained that Prince Harry always left him to do the dishes. "Oh the lies, the lies," Prince Harry replied. On another occasion, the two visited the country's soccer team after England played Algeria in the World Cup, and Prince William was asked how their visit to the locker room had gone. "We tried to raise their spirits," Prince William said. "I used some of my analogies from the military, they've got more to go, they're strong players; I did my best to gee them up." "Oh, they'll have really enjoyed being told how to play better by a posh soldier!" Prince Harry told him.
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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