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...good name - sit safely in their offices, unthreatened with even impeachment and ready to escape into retirement without a scratch when their term ends. Payment for sex is apparently far worse than the losses of blood, treasure and our nation's reputation. American values? They're in the toilet. William Majors, Woodland Hills, Calif...
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...
...election by a 17 percent margin. His party, considered more favorable to a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than the rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies William P. Alford, who met Ma when the two were students at the Law School some 30 years ago, recognized the historical nature of the president-elect’s mandate. “This particular person in this particular point in history is very exciting in determining what the best relationship...
...percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other elite universities faced challenging admissions decisions too. While Bowdoin College’s admit rate of 18.4 percent was nearly identical to last year’s, Dean of Admissions William M. Shain said applicants for the class of 2012 demonstrated “more powerful” qualifications overall than in years past. “It’s definitely the most competitive of the 25 years we have data for,” he said. Shain suggested that recent...
Bertie Ahern, who stepped down as Ireland's Prime Minister today, leaves behind an country that is, in the words of poet William Butler Yeats, "all changed, changed utterly." His resignation as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) underlines the remarkable transformation over which he presided in his decade of leadership: Ireland has grown from an economic backwater to an E.U. success story, and has moved from a bastion of social conservatism to a more open and diverse society. But the same changes may also have ultimately cost Ahern, as Ireland also moved from a deferential political culture to one that asks hard...