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...plays women are shown time and time again to be constant in love through months and years of separation," Greer writes. Anne "may have been the model." By giving Shakespeare's wife a voice and rescuing her from caricature, Greer achieves that for which all Shakespearean scholars strive: she brings us closer to the Bard himself...
...moving to Reno for an élite new school and striking out alone at age 15. Currently, gifted programs too often admit marginal, hardworking kids and then mostly assign field trips and extra essays, not truly accelerated course work pegged to a student's abilities. Ideally, school systems should strive to keep their most talented students through a combination of grade skipping and other approaches (dual enrollment in community colleges, telescoping classwork without grade skipping) that ensure they won't drop out or feel driven away to Nevada. The best way to treat the Annalisee Brasils of the world...
...people have been lifted from desperate poverty as a result, and the West should not try to stop the rise of India and China. But the powerful, swift changes in the global economy will also trigger strong repercussions in the West. So nations such as the U.S. need to strive to create new jobs and to weave a stronger safety net ahead of the inevitable losses of employment...
...easy to loathe Barry Bonds. As he approaches one of the most important achievements in American sport--Hank Aaron's all-time record of 755 home runs--everyone knows about Bonds the boor. He's fought with teammates, dissed the press and shunned the notion that athletes must strive to be adored. Then there's that whole steroids thing. In a recent TIME.com poll, 77% of respondents didn't want Bonds to break Aaron's record...
...before a three-month sabbatical, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams ordained a new bishop in London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Williams, the tousle-haired leader of the Church of England and titular head of its global offshoot, the Anglican Communion, performed the liturgy of ordination: "Will you strive for the visible unity of Christ's Church?" he asked. Answered the new bishop: "By the help of God, I will...