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...Sept. 10, Shakespearian actor Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (a working modern replica of the London theater Will co-owned and acted at), unveiled a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt." Created by the California-based Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, an educational charity dedicated to raising awareness of the Shakespeare identity question, the document asks the world of academia to accept that there is "room for reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare" and to start taking the research into who is really responsible for his works seriously. Along with Jacobi and Rylance, signatories...
...governments and Big Business. The media are also guilty. What we give away in moments of anguish and fright will be more than difficult to regain later. Disdaining our laws in order to protect ourselves makes us little better than the maniacs who seek to destroy our civilisation. Paul Jacobi Obermarchtal, Germany Of Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's Princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir" [Sept. 18], as though that were actually within her control. The only failures here are in your demeaning statement that that...
Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...model our mothers," says psychology professor Lora Jacobi, who teaches a class on eating disorders at all-women Hollins University in Virginia. Of the students attracted to her class--typically those struggling with eating issues--virtually all report that their mothers were excessively worried about their size...
Your daughters are watching you, according to Jacobi. They observe you trying on jeans, overhear you grousing to your friends. They notice what you eat. If you declare yourself "good" for eating only salad and "bad" for eating cookies, they will judge their own goodness and badness the same...