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...Crown Forum; 272 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

First of all, the relevance of Christopher Columbus to the specific history of the United States is dubious at best—the man was an Italian hired by the Spanish crown who landed in Latin America rather than in Boston or in the Chesapeake. If anything, his arrival in the “New World” marks the dawn of an era of European expansion and exploitation, which devastated Native Americans and other indigenous populations. And considering that Columbus Day is the only American national holiday (aside from January’s Martin Luther King, Jr. ,Day) still...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Columbus Day Again? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...It’s not about gender,” she explains. “It’s not about the politics of gender, but the gender of politics.” While Federman denies that Richard II’s femininity lost him the crown, she likens him to Nixon and Blagojevich, attributing his fall to their misled self-righteousness...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dressing Shakespeare in Drag | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...sweet leather taste and a pruney finish - was gaveled off to a mainland Chinese bidder for a record $93,000. "The balance of power in the wine world is now shifting from West to East," explains Gregory De'eb, co-founder of a Hong Kong wine storage facility called Crown Wine Cellars. (Read "Cape Crusaders: South African Wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vintage Wines Fetch Record Prices in Hong Kong | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...British authorities seem to be increasingly cautious when it comes to photographs of kids. Two years ago, police seized a photograph by Nan Goldin of two young girls belly dancing in the nude. The work, which six years earlier had been judged decent by the Crown Prosecution Service, was part of a set owned by Elton John and was on display in a northeastern England gallery. The CPS once again cleared the image, saying that standards of propriety had not changed significantly since its last judgment. (Read "Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nude Brooke Shields Causes a Flap at London's Tate | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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