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...Shakespeare, is often supposed to be the "fair youth" who turns the poet's head in some of Shakespeare's sonnets. How fair? A painting of the long-haired earl at 19, also in the Cobbe family collection, was mistaken for many years as a portrait of a young woman. And though the earl later married and fathered children, there is a letter written about him during his participation in the Irish wars that alludes to a sexual relationship between him and one of his captains. (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...years, the typical caller at CareOne Credit, one of the biggest debt-counseling outfits in the nation, has been a woman in her 30s with a yearly family income of $30,000 to $35,000 and a credit score around 550 (that's low). In the past two months, though, the people at CareOne have noticed a shift. It's still women who usually get stuck making the call, and the age range isn't dramatically different. But credit problems are rapidly moving up the income scale. More and more calls are coming from people with family incomes...
...while working women strongly desire to drift back into domesticity, men want to remain in the workplace, even in the absence of a financial imperative to do so. What better solution, Basham reasons, than to abide by these apparently biological urges and allow the man to work, while the woman acts as a productivity and profit maximizing sidekick...
When Scodras decided to take his current position as lab director of Southwest Florida Fertility Center in Fort Meyers, Fla., Kamrava hired Dr. Shantal Rajah, an embryologist he recruited from England. "Honestly, I was surprised he hired a woman because, although with his patients he got along very well, I just pictured him as more suited to a male in the lab," says Scodras. After just three weeks in Kamrava's employ, Rajah found herself at odds with the doctor over the heating of the laboratory and was abruptly asked to leave the practice. She sued him for breach...
...real name. That's what she's called by the many Iraqi sex traffickers and pimps who contact her several times a week from across the country. They think she is one of them, a peddler of sexual slaves. Little do they know that the stocky auburn-haired woman is an undercover human-rights activist who has been quietly mapping out their murky underworld since...