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Dench: When I first came to the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company] in the early '60s, there was a boy in the paint shop painting sets who was called Roger Reese. And he ended up playing Hamlet. That kind of cherishing--we don't have that anymore. And it's never the fact that good actors are in work and bad actors are not in work. We are all aware that right here, right behind your shoulder, is somebody who will do your part and probably a great deal better than you. It's not just one--there...
...Those troubled by the Ashley treatment as a medical fix for a larger social problem are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors be allowed to kill the sickest infants - which is already legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and urged that they "think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns." At least...
Could this change as a new generation of politicians comes to the fore? Both main presidential candidates - Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy - are just 50, but have been in politics for 30 years. Their problem will be to prevent their parties, which are still partly living in the past, from laying down...
...either candidate able to break the mold? I have some fears. Every time Royal speaks, someone behind her "corrects" what she means. Every time Sarkozy speaks, there are voices that say: "Yes, but you need to be careful." We are in a situation where the moment of revolution, if it exists, only exists in their heads...
...Englishman John Williams brought Christianity to Samoa in 1830, he could not have imagined the extent to which it would become enmeshed in the complex weave of Samoan society. Laupule Poutasi's fala su'i captures this perfectly. In this woven heirloom mat, masculine symbols of authority, including the royal coat of arms, are supremely feminized, including a pair of hibiscus flowers added by Poutasi's daughter Tusi Luafutu when she emigrated to Australia in 1991. It's quite clear who rules the roost. Played out in these textiles are imaginative alternate universes, where the deposed Pomare kings and queens...