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Real Shakespeare Portrait: Stanley Fish Claims Only Picture Ever Painted Of Shakespeare While He Was Still Alive

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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In London today the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stanley Fish, unveiled a portrait that he claims is of the famous playwright. Even ...

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Obama's Rhetorical Inspirations: Presidents, Poets, and Hobbits

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Aaron Zelinsky

Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.

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Sustainable Valentine's Day

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Sarah Newman

Whatever your take is on February 14th, it's an opportunity to actually not spend much money (and who has any left to spend in this economy?) and make it a sustainable day.

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Michael Phelps In Good Company

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Keith Thomson

According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.

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What We Will Remember from Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Aaron Zelinsky

Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.

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Take That Smug Smile Off Madoff Now

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Vicky Ward

Even if Madoff goes to jail today, he still doesn't face indictment for at least another 30 days. The grand jury has been given an extension to deliberate -- and some of us are baffled as to why.

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Murdoch and Polonius: A Subscriber's Report

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Bill Clinton, Robert Bartley, Barney Frank, Bernanke, Fannie Mae, Chris Dodd, Procter & Gamble, Wall Street Journal, Paulson, Freddie Mac, Financial TImes, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Fox News, Shakespeare, Bernard Madoff, Whitewater, Ghoogle, Media News
Martin Nolan

In 2008, during the biggest financial news story since 1929, the credibility of the Wall Street Journal's ed page coughed, sputtered, and collapsed.

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The Gentler Gamester is the Soonest Winner

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Jim Wallis

As American and Indian intelligence continue to point to the Pakistani militant organization as responsible for last weeks attacks in Mumbai, I hope they've read a new report from the National Intelligence Council.

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What We Will Remember: Obama's Victory Speech and McCain's Concession

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Aaron Zelinsky

Obama and McCain accomplished two very different objectives last night: Obama unified and inspired; McCain departed with grace. Here's what history will remember of the speeches of November 4, 2008.

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McCain: A Tragedy in Three Scenes

Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Matt Mendelsohn

"Pagan, Hagan, whoeth is counting, Sister Bachmann? Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. But voting in November, facts they won't remember."

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Can Bad News Lead to Good Business?

Julia Moulden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Julia Moulden

What to make of the screaming financial headlines of recent weeks? Where does your mind go when you read the coverage? What do you worry and wonder ab...

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Shakespearean Tragedy

Michael Showalter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Michael Showalter

If last nights debate was a production of Macbeth the critics would have called it bad casting. "Why would anyone cast Heidi Montag in the role of Lady Macbeth?" They'd say.

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Will Power

Ken Adelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Ken Adelman

Shakespeare used words with more finesse and had the greatest insight into human nature than anyone, ever. With these two gifts, he can give us insights into the speechifying we're witnessing in Denver and St. Paul.

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Ranking The Best Poets Ever

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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John Lundberg

In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...

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Freedom Banned

Richard LaGravenese | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Richard LaGravenese

In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?

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Tim Russert's Eyes Were Nothing Like The Sun

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Jeff Dorchen

Tim Russert was fair-minded to the point of utterly lacking any active moral sense whatsoever. But there is one thing Tim Russert did that no other living journalist has yet done: he died.

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Is This The Real Source Of Shakespeare's Genius?

Posted 06.22.2012 | Home
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To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, we're featuring some of our favorite archival pieces about his life and work. This one was first published in Jan...

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Is This The Real Source Of Shakespeare's Genius?

Posted 06.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Dr Jonathan Hope Shakespeare, Video, Jonathan Hope, Dr Jonathan Hope, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Grammar, Grammar, Shakespeare, Home News

To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, we're featuring some of our favorite archival pieces about his life and work. This one was first published in Jan...

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