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...deceptive--certain footage was staged and misleadingly edited, it says--it was unable to file a libel suit before the statute of limitations expired. Instead, the company is challenging the ways in which PrimeTime obtained its information. The jury has already awarded the chain $1,402 in damages as partial payment for training costs and wages doled out to PrimeTime's faux workers. The punitive-damage award could be in the millions...
...stage.” This heightened competition put pressure on Shakespeare to write plays that would be recognized above the other companies’ productions. Moreover, Shakespeare was a shareholder of the Globe Theatre—an unconventional position for a playwright of the time. This partial ownership allowed him more control over what shows his company would put on stage. The combination of these factors inspired and challenged Shakespeare, and spurred his writing to be better than it had ever been. Shapiro’s opus comes at a high-water mark for the continuous tide of Shakespeare scholarship...
...drawn to the widow’s 16-year-old daughter Eleonore, whom he taught piano—but the love was unrequited. He never had much luck with the fairer sex, and he nevera married despite interest in a number of women. Prudishness and shyness are partial explanations: when one woman made passes at him in a tavern, “He was at first cold, and then violent, giving her head a sharp smack,” Morris writes. But Beethoven also carried the albatross of physical unattractiveness: he had a swarthy complexion, skin pits, and short legs...
...that only a small part of anti-American sentiment is the result of automatic resentment of American values or American political and cultural dominance. Instead, Walt demonstrates, most anti-American sentiment is generated by specific American actions and policies. Historic precedents, like the United States’ at least partial responsibility for the demise of nine freely elected Latin American governments, give many countries good reason to resent the U.S. Walt considers American hypocrisy to be a source of frustration: while trumpeting the virtues of free trade, for instance, America upholds domestic tariffs and agricultural subsidies that keep third-world...
...blunder. Yet to withdraw our troops now would compound the mistake we made in deciding to invade and would leave an unstable and volatile nation to fend for itself. So what should Americans do? We should support our troops until some sort of muddled conclusion allows at least a partial withdrawal. Ken Reich San Rafael, California...