Neil McKenzie, Paul Adams, Albie Morkel, Ashwell Prince and David Terbrugge have all been dropped following a disappointing tour to New Zealand earlier this year and Gary Kirsten has retired.
More than 300 notables from all walks of life have contributed essays thus far, including Garrison Keillor, Diane von Furstenberg, Bill Gross, Erica Jong, Muhammad Yunus, Tom Hanks, Ken Burns, Harold Prince, David McCullough, Thomas Friedman, Barbara Kingsolver, and many others.
By the time they made it to the gold medal round, a capacity crowd that included royalty and celebrities -- from Prince Harry to David Beckham -- turned out to watch what May-Traenor had said months earlier would likely be her last match.
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David Cameron and Prince William have both contacted New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key to offer support.
Inside, the congregation included Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Also notable are new films from art-house directors such as Richard Linklater ("Before Midnight, " which reunites stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), Neil LaBute ("Some Velvet Morning"), David Gordon Green ("Prince Avalanche, " with Mr. Rudd and Emile Hirsch), Mira Nair ("The Reluctant Fundamentalist") and Neil Jordan ("Byzantium").
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he spoke to Prince William after the news was announced and passed on his congratulations.
Sir David and Prof Hawking finished above explorer Ranulph Fiennes, Prince Charles and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Last month Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted "get this sorted out" before Prince William and Kate Middleton marry at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011.
"It was amazing, " said David Moore, from Oxford, who had just seen his first ever Prince concert.
In one incident, officials in the Carter administration discovered the prince had deliberately mistranslated an important letter from the then Saudi ruler, King Fahd, to President Sadat of Egypt, to make it sound more conciliatory. (This was at a time when Sadat was being vilified in the Arab world for signing the Camp David peace accords with Israel.) Freelancing seemed to come naturally to the prince.
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Finally, Prince Charles joined a traditional Welsh carol service in Carmarthen, at the town's University of Wales Trinity Saint David campus.
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