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Shakespeare Plays Not By Shakespeare, Says German Scholar

Telegraph | Allan Hall | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Shakespeare Plays, Shakespeare Writing, Edward De Vere, William Shakespeare, Authors, Earl of Oxford, Shakespeare, Books, Shakespeare Fraud, Books News

A German academic claims to have uncovered the most conclusive evidence to date that the works of William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward d...

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10 Dysfunctional Family Memoirs And One Shakespeare Play (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...

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This is It: Michael Jackson's Transcendence

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Amadeus, This Is It, Art, Mj, Dance, Shakespeare, Music, Hip-Hop, Michael Jackson Documentary, Entertainment News

I went to see This Is It the way one might go see a horror picture. What I encountered instead was an artist at the absolute top of his game.

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A Book About Nothing, Just Like Seinfeld (VIDEO)

Joan Konner | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Video, Rumi, Wall Street, Nirvana, Columbia, Seinfeld, Buddhism, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Nothing, Books News

Nothing exists. Nothing is an essential presence in our lives. Paradoxical? Yes. Illogical and irrational? Yes. Yet to ignore Nothing is to deny our road to renewal.

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Tendai Biti: Brave Reformer in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Shakespeare, Africa, Hyperinflation, Robert Mugabe, Tendai Biti, ZImbabwe Crisis, World News

Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's reformist finance minister, knows something about living on the edge.

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Once Upon A Time: Silly Is For Survivors

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Adversity, Laughter, Shakespeare, Humor, Children's Books, Children, India, Titanic, James Cameron, Happiness, Living News

Could it be that some parents deprive their children of silly stories mistakenly believing that silly is counterproductive? Could they believe that the world is a harsh place with no room for laughter and goofiness?

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Massachusetts Shakespearean Theater Needs $2.3 Million To Continue Operations

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Massachusetts, Shakespeare, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Impact News

LENOX, Mass. — A nonprofit consultants' report says a Shakespearean theater in Massachusetts needs to raise $2.3 million to continue operations ...

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William Shakespeare: Computer Program Proves The Bard Didn't Work Alone

Posted 10.13.2009 | Technology

Read More: Shakespeare Edward III, Shakespeare Scholar, William Shakespeare, Study Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, Pl@Giarism, Shakespeare Collaboration, Shakespeare, Did Shakespeare Write Alone, Technology News

Scholars have long argued over whether William Shakespeare worked alone, collaborated, or even authored some of the works attributed to him. Thank...

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The Hamlet Secret: Joyful Living!

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Personal Transformation, The Hamlet Secret, Responsibility, Personal Growth, Hamlet, The-Hamlet-Secret, Personal Development, Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Tikkun Olam, James M. Lynch, Gandhi, Happiness, Living News

Whatever the result, whatever happened, it is all your "fault" (read "responsibility"). By adopting this stance, you become empowered to take on any situation no matter what.

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True Confessions of a Gourmand

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Iran, Worldwide Web, Cooking, Family, Children, Tehran, Food, Gourmet, Parenting, Multicultural, Shakespeare, Lnternet, Google, Style News

Gourmet is the latest glossy to fall victim to declines in readership and ad revenue. I can't explain this. I can only explain why Gourmet's circulation stood at 977,000 and not 977,001.

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Getting Unstuck, Finding Some Fun

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran, Battle, Pema Chodron, 9 Tips, Being Right, Health Care Reform, Buddhist Monkey Mind, Jungian Analyst, Afghanistan, Shakespeare, China, Author, North Korea, The Balanced Life, Living News

"...I am on my own journey/battle with forgiveness...and I find it very difficult. I feel as if I have reached a standstill. ...perhaps there is a d...

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'How to Be Happy' and Stop Being Fearful

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Children are naturally prone to curiosity -- but all too often this is replaced by nurture that cautions against everything that is unknown, leading ultimately to a life ultimately not much worth knowing about at all.

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Why We Are Subjected to Beatlemania, Again

Tamara Conniff | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Publishing, John Lennon, Beatlemania, Beatles Rock Band, Copyright, Rock Band, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, European Union, United Kingdon, Shakespeare, Sony, Entertainment News

I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong. Paul McCartney in concert is a religious experience. But I'm over Beatlemania. I want it to stop. Why now? A little thing called copyright.

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Shock And Caw: Pesky Starlings Sill Overwhelm

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Birds, Starlings, Starling Flocks, Pests, North America, Bird Strikes, Most Hated Bird, Shakespeare, Poison, Green News

SALT LAKE CITY — The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare – or, better yet, a few of his...

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He Showed the World Through Teachers' Eyes: Thank You, Frank McCourt

Dan Brown | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Reform, New York City Public Schools, Education, Random House, Stuyvesant High School, Angela's Ashes, Terry Gross, Shakespeare, Teachers, Storycorps, Frank Mccourt, Fresh Air, Media News

Occasionally, a teacher can cross over from the all-consuming teaching sphere to tell the tale to the masses. No one in recent memory did this more successfully than Frank McCourt.

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The Dream of Love

Mark Matousek | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Wedding, Breaking Up, Love, Shakespeare, Living News

Breaking up isn't hard to do: It's hell on earth, at least at the outset. You sit there surveying the rubble of promises broken, the empty bed, the romance discarded with yesterday's news.

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Twelfth Night in Central Park

Alec Baldwin | Posted 08.12.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Shakespeare Festival, Twelfth Night, Public Theater, Central Park, Daniel Sullivan, Shakespeare, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, New York News

To bring together a wonderful cast of some of the great performers in the American theatre and watch them create one of the best shows I have seen in the Park in quite some time was a rare treat.

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Christopher Plummer, Mum, And Me

Julia Moulden | Posted 08.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Shakespeare, New Radicals, Christopher Plummer, King Lear, Julia Moulden, Living News

"Christopher is doing King Lear at Stratford, and I'd like us to go." That's how Mum put it when she canvassed her children for our interest in joinin...

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Michael Jackson and 4th of July Priorities of Concern

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Shabbat, 4th of July, Leonardo Da Vinci, Cable Television, Clean Energy, Michael Jackson Death, Iran Protests, Musical America, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Shakespeare, Healthcare, South Carolina Governor, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Hollywood, Politics News

In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.

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Shakespeare In The Park: Anne Hathaway, Steve Martin, Liev Shreiber At Public Theater Opening (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York

Last night was the opening for the annual Shakespeare In The Park at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. This year's production of Twelfth Night i...

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The Play's The Thing, But It's Not The Only Thing

Nora Ephron | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Plays, Shakespeare in the Park, New York, Shakespeare, New York City, New York News

Anything can happen at Shakespeare in the Park. Herons land on stage. Planes fly over. This year, I read in the papers, a raccoon wandered onstage.

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There Is No Joy in Metsville -- Thank Heavens!

Michael Shapiro | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Mets, Shakespeare, Jose Reyes, Baseball, Carlos Delgado, Entertainment News

Right now the Mets, who have been finding different ways to lose every night, are the object of scorn mixed with sadness. They fill the heart.

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Musings on Swine Flu: Birth and Death, the Circle of Life

Lea Lane | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

Read More: London, Birth, The Seven Ages of Man, Health, As You Like It, Swine Flu, Tate Gallery, Shakespeare, Bill Viola, Death, Living News

I thought about the parallels of the newborn and almost gone: no hair, diapers, no teeth, inability to walk, weak immunity, dependency. And the miracle and the natural progression of the circle of life.

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Comedic King Lear and Jack Bauer Clone - Audiobook Reviews

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Harper Audio, Euan Morton, Penguin Audio, Jester, Libidinous Comedy, Austin Powers, "The Silent Man'" Alex Berenson, Jason Bourne, Spy Novel, Jack Bauer, "Fool, Shakespeare, Harpercollins, " Christopher Moore, Monty Python, George Guidall, Pocket, Media News

In Fool, Moore's sell is his Pythonesque-meets-Austin-Powers dialogue and descriptors, delivered on these CDs with sly British sincerity and skill by Euan Morton.

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