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...women. Being who you are rather than putting up some kind of façade shows much stronger character. By all means, dress well, and stay healthy and fit. But dyeing your hair is right up there with dressing like a teenager when you are 40. For those who claim it's different for women, I respectfully reply that it shouldn't be - and perpetuating the supposed difference won't help. Steve Rummel, Chicago...
...Coalition's "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" doesn't claim to know who wrote Shakespeare's plays, but it asks that the question "should, henceforth, be regarded in academia as a legitimate issue for research and publication." Hoping to start the trend is William Leahy, head of English at Brunel University who, later this month, will teach the first ever M.A. course dedicated to the authorship question. "Shakespeare studies already look at his work from so many angles - feminist, post-colonialist, historical," he says. "And I think it's important that the authorship question is one of them." This could...
...father, a staunch nationalist who bounced back from imprisonment as a war criminal to become Premier in the 1950s. The youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history, Abe came to power last September as the architect of a self-proclaimed "assertive diplomacy" in which a re-energized nation would claim its rightful place on the global stage. The 52-year-old vowed to repair relations with Asian neighbors still wounded by Japan's wartime aggression and aimed to transform the nation's military from a limited self-defense force into a proper army. It was an ambitious agenda that...
...women. Being who you are rather than putting up some kind of façade shows much stronger character. By all means, dress well, and stay healthy and fit. But dyeing your hair is right up there with dressing like a teenager when you are 40. For those who claim it's different for women, I respectfully reply that it shouldn't be--and perpetuating the supposed difference won't help...
Wanting to be seen as responsible and practical, many politicians often claim to be reacting to new information. In 1966, during his first race to become Governor of California, Ronald Reagan pledged not to raise income taxes, declaring that his feet were "in concrete" on the issue. State income taxes were collected by withholding, and Reagan believed taxes should be obvious and painful. But once in office, he found that there was no other revenue stream that could balance the state budget, and so he submitted an economic plan that called for higher withholding taxes. "The sound you hear...