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...Shakespeare (or maybe Bacon or possibly De Vere) asked, "What's in a name?" The star-crossed lovers still die, there will always be something rotten in the state of Denmark, no matter who wrote the plays. So why all the fuss? Both sides argue that knowing the identity of the man behind Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest is essential to understanding them. "Our interpretation of Shakespeare's works would be entirely different if we knew who wrote them," says Bill Rubinstein, history professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and an academic adviser for the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition...
...Because Pakistan is a frontline state in the war on terror, what happens there is closely followed by Washington. The State Department has studiously stayed away from condemning Sharif's deportation. "It's a matter for the Pakistanis to resolve," said spokesman Sean McCormack. "The Pakistani Supreme Court has made a judgment about this issue and the decision to deport Mr. Sharif runs contrary to that, but it is still a pending legal matter in Pakistan, so we're not going to have anything to say about...
...1960s, the Netherlands discovered huge deposits of natural gas in the North Sea. A windfall, right? Wrong. The discovery effectively hobbled Dutch industry, since any surge in revenue from natural resources - or from foreign aid, for that matter - tends to drive up exchange rates, making exports less internationally competitive. But thriving export industries, Collier argues, are precisely the reason for Asia's dramatic economic rise. They are also what Africa will need to develop in order to follow the same trajectory. Collier's idea seems to be sinking in: last month, the large international aid organization CARE announced that...
...Real estate is largely a local matter. People selling houses in Bismarck, N.D., or Binghamton, N.Y., might find they have a relatively easy time of it, but in big chunks of the country, putting a home up for sale hurts...
...Diana mattered not only to Britain but to the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. Although a princess, she was a humanitarian unequaled in the 20th century who crossed the boundaries of class and race. When I saw her with Mother Teresa, I was struck by the thought that, no matter what walk of life one comes from, sisterly love can be a universal attribute toward which we should all strive. Despite human frailties, she made the world a better place for all. Sonja Rencken, Abcoude, the Netherlands...