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THEATER IN LONDON Was William Shakespeare a shameless propagandist? Or a shrewd critic of the monarchy? One way to decide is to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company perform his full set of history plays - Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI's three parts and Richard III - at London's Roundhouse theater until May 25. The Histories Cycle climaxes with all eight plays in chronological order over four consecutive days - 100 years of royalty and treachery seen through Will's eyes. www.rsc.org.uk by Jumana Farouky...
...Even as questions about large cash loans from friends and associates piled up, Ahern routinely polled as Ireland's most popular politician, and defied many forecasts to win an unprecedented third successive term last year. Recognized by his peers as an exceptionally shrewd politician - one of his predecessors described him as "the most cunning of them all" - he played a key role in Ireland's epic economic transformation. He was also dedicated to the Northern Ireland peace process, once flying into a negotiation session directly from his mother's funeral. And he built on that to forge Irish relations with...
...listen to the voices in the academy who were explaining why it [war] was a foolish idea.” “I think I phrased it in a manner that could have been improved,” Ignatieff said. “You can have a very shrewd sense of reality in any environment. Harvard doesn’t give you a privileged view of the world. You can get it wrong at Harvard. You an also get it right at Harvard.” He named colleagues—including Walt, former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power...
...later achievements. Gomes had his own thoughts to offer on what his friend might have felt about the proceedings. “I think he would have been mildly intrigued at the encomia his colleagues were presenting,” Gomes said. “He was shrewd, as I said—he knew how to separate the wheat form the chaff.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many in the South, with a very shrewd appreciation of the likely costs of unification, dread a collapse of the North - and that Kim has shown himself able to use his possession of nuclear weapons as a way to coerce enough foreign tribute to preserve his regime. As Yoichi Funabashi, the editor in chief of Japan's Asahi...