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...whores, from the sleaziest to the most glamorous," and that prostitutes might ensnare him as he passed through their red-light districts. People returning from London carried gossip that William was free with his favors, and a homosexual. The publication of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's decidedly erotic poem and his biggest claim to fame among his contemporaries, disrupted her quiet life. Neighbors likely sneered that Anne inspired the poem's "desirous older woman" with a boy husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...Dung" sounds less like a dissident than a Communist fanboy, posting items including "Have a Strong Belief in Communist Party" and most recently warning against attempts to "sway" the population against the government and also criticizing several jailed dissidents by name. The same post also featured nine-line poem praising the late communist independence leader Ho Chi Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vietnam "War" in the Blogosphere | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...logs. The official "Blog of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung" debuted in late July, and by this week had accumulated more than 140 "friends" - including, apparently, Nong Duc Manh, the Communist Party general-secretary. The blog offered the Prime Minister's thoughts, insights and even a personal poem. Vietnamese netizens were amazed at the gesture of openness. "Can this really be the prime minister?" asked one poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vietnam "War" in the Blogosphere | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...Most places you go, it feels like a business,” said David H. Brennan, a Pamplona patron of more than 30 years whose poem “Ode to Pamplona” has a place on the café’s wall. “[Pamplona] is more a living room than a business...it’s like being invited into a good friend’s house...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beloved Pamplona Owner Dies at 90 | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...among 23 recovered skulls was Schiller's became an act of divination: the mayor of Weimar simply deemed the biggest one to be that of the cerebral poet. Schiller's friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this cranium has had a place of honor in Weimar's ducal vault, later joined by Goethe's remains in what has become a shrine to German literature's Golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schiller Skull Mystery | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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