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The lady's really loverly, but nothing else around her is of quite the same spectacular calibre. ... That's the verdict on the production of My Fair Lady that opened at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on Friday as part of Dancap Productions' season. Phonetics professor...
Among the beautiful poetry and noise in the June edition of Vanity Fair magazine is an excerpt from "The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America." ... Nation would benefit from focus on RFK’s vision Among the beautiful poetry and noise in the...
Interesting blog about history ... This article is about the pressing need for smart, bold and superexpensive projects and why our society is failing to fund them. Even the Spanish monarchs who acquiesced to finance Columbus’s venture thought it very unlikely he’d return,...
GEORGE Bernard Shaw had his built on a spindle so that it could be rotated and always face the sun. Roald Dahl's was in the shade, but he didn't mind as long as he had ... his old piece of worn carpet wrapped around his legs for warmth, his high-backed chair and his...
Six new projects by Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Sejla Kameric, Langlands & Bell, Pae White and Mark Wallinger have been announced for the inaugural Folkestone Triennial which will run from 14 June - 14 September 2008. One of the most ambitious public art projects to be presented in the UK,...
Political parties must change outdated ethnic-based tenets to move ahead. ... or be trampled upon? A brief tutorial: The 'Red Queen Effect' is a term created by biologist Leigh Van Valen to describe the evolutionary necessity to evolve faster than one's competitors.
Graced with Reagan-esque looks, Jeffersonian brains, and the fists of Teddy Roosevelt, Gene Tunney should be every thinking-man’s favorite boxer. It’s a shame that he’s largely been forgotten, even though he’s one of the most intriguing sports figures in American history. In contrast to Moe Berg,...
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination." George Bernard Shaw's famously caustic comment on royalty succinctly describes French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Almost a year ago, France was under his spell, and elected him president on May 6 of last year. But by this spring the...
As Mother's Day approaches, we salute the all-time masters of mommy-ing. Here's to ten women who deserve more than macaroni drawings. ... As Mother's Day approaches, we salute the all-time masters of mommy-ing. In addition to doing extensive charity work for her home city...
Police officers rate a salute... ...as do nurses and EMTs Police officers make news all the time, and most of the news is good. But sometimes police make mistakes, or abuse their authority or betray their trust, and those news stories aren't so easy to read. They can make...
