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...Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron Burr through Abraham Lincoln. Britain's William Henry Ireland successfully duplicated Shakespeare, passing off manuscripts of Hamlet and King Lear, until his own addition to the canon, Vortigern and Rowena, proved his undoing...
...some 250,000 Fabergé pieces extant, not one was actually made by the master. His genius, while he presided over more than 500 artisans, was to impart an aesthetic that, for all the opulence of the materials, was by and large controlled and even understated...
...which Falstaff got away from Shakespeare and walked off with the play. And it is true that Falstaff's is the longest role in the play--without any interpolations from elsewhere. But the playwright's main business here is serious history. In fact, I Henry IV is the earliest extant example of the word history used to designate a dramatic genre. By playing down the history and inflating Falstaff (who is already inflated from excess of food and drink). Shakespeare's balanced design shuttling from palace to pub, from province to plain of battle-is upset...
Furthermore, as the majority so eloquently states, the establishment of a committee does not a true commitment entail-quite the opposite, it seems. An inter-disciplinary committee of women's studies would only inhibit the reform of prejudices that exist in extant departments. Perhaps the only positives aspect of a new department would be the introduction of courses and seminars dedicated to re-examining areas traditionally biased against women, and in developing a greater understanding of women's role and contribution in academics. This is notably a role not adopted by the committee advocated by the majority-a body which...
...single election. Anyone with eyes and ears can prove its existence with a three-day car trip. Even in liberal America, religion is comfortable and unchallenging. As in so much of the world, organized Christianity here has not been a force for humanity. Instead, it has served the extant social order and the political and economic status...