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• Karan Singh honoured by New York varsity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New York, Nov 7 (IANS) Karan Singh, president, Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), was conferred with an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters by the State University of New York here Saturday.“As an internationally respected humanitarian and one of the most learned individuals of modern times, you have a ...
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• We preview the Shaw Festival’s 2010 season

  
  EMSWORTH — Authority: 103
  The poster for the original stage production of One Touch of Venus, the only musical on the 2010 playbill It’s not quite Kremlinology, but we like the challenge of trying to figure out what’s really going on at the Shaw Festival from the official clues. Now that its 2010 schedule of plays is out, we think we ...
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• Republicans Think We All Have Munchausen Syndrome: GOP Health Care and the Myth of “Overuse”

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 418
  Earlier today I wrote about the Republicans’ claim that most Americans are “over-insured.” This, they say, is the real problem with our health care system, because it encourages people to have “unnecessary” and costly treatments. This claim, in turn, points to an enduring myth about health care that ...
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• Today’s Inspiration 11/4/2009

  
  Black And Married With Kids — Authority: 505
  Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.  -George Bernard Shaw
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• A note on religion, a faith for our time and every time

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 557
  Religion is seldom discussed on the FM website, but plays an important role in an well-founded society. There are many levels of faith, but there is a foundation on which the edifice can securely rest: collective action against the chaotic forces of nature and man’s nature.As described in Act II of Major Barbara, by ...
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• Mrs Warrens Profession

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 468
  To see a sparky Felicity Kendal in a new Theatre Royal Bath production of Shaws once controversial comedy about prostitution, Mrs Warrens Profession , last night. The play which tells the story of an independent-minded 1890s Cambridge-educated young womans discovery of how her largely estranged mother earns her ...
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• Quotes – Part 18 – History

  
  Running Wolf's Rant — Authority: 121
  var fbShare = {url: http://rwrant.co.za/2009/10/30/quotes-part-18-history/,size:small}It’s a shame that there aren’t that many people these days who are interested in history, especially the younger generation. Most of them are not interested on the course of events that has made the world what it is today. How ...
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• Ireland in The Heart of All Irish

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
            Ireland with its deep green hills steeped in history.  The land swallows up the memories of the dead and she holds onto her ancient history like a child holds onto her favorite doll.  Much blood has been spilt on the green earth and many have toiled through hard times.  Some left their homeland ...
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• Notes For October 28th, 2009

  
  The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP — Authority: 125
  This Day In Writing History On October 28th, 1905, Mrs. Warrens Profession , the famous play by legendary Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, opened at the Garrick Theater in New York. The play, Shaws second, was written in 1893. It had been banned in Britain by the Lord Chamberlain (Englands theater censor) ...
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• whatever

  
  the half-life of linoleum — Authority: 121
  some men see things as they are and ask why. i dream things that never were and say whatever. *this is, of course, a paraphrase of sorts of the G. B. Shaw quote, "Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not." **whatever, in a recent marist ...
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• [238] Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 423
  “You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower ...
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• Keira Knightley Is Still A ‘Fair Lady! Joe Wright Attached Now Attached To Direct

  
  Fused Film — Authority: 543
  I know what many people will comment on when I write this but Audrey Hepburn is one of the most beautiful and graceful actresses I have ever had the pleasure of watching in films, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is one of my favorite films of all time. Another one of her classics is the film adaptation of the Lerner and ...
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• Should Canadian Students Read Foreign Literature?

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 419
  Thomas Hodd of the University of Guelph-Humber issued a ringing declaration in the Toronto Star a few days ago: no high school student in this country should be assigned to kill a mockingbird. I’ll say. While the range of the northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos , does extend into southeastern Canada, ...
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• Keira Knightley is the New ‘My Fair Lady’

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 596
  There’s a remake underway of My Fair Lady and Keira Knightley is playing the lead.Mandrake hears that the 24-year-old actress has beaten Scarlett Johansson to the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of My Fair Lady.Her victory comes as I can disclose that Joe Wright, who inspired Knightley to her best ...
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• Quotation for Today, Thursday 22 October

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 567
  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw
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• Nostalgia Aint (is) What it Used to Be.

  
  Grumpy Old Ken — Authority: 112
  I sat here on Saturday morning, blank, wondering what on earth to write. It reminded me of my short career as a Barbers boy. What was it I was taught to whisper as I collected the customers money at the till. (Five bob for a gents hair cut.) And something for the weekend, sir? A year or two ago I wrote a book of ...
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• Quotation for Today, Sunday 18 October

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 567
  Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
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• Elites and Tyrants – What are exactly the distinctions between Socialism and Nazism?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba’s health care system, “You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.” W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach ...
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• Taming Leviathan

  
  the 48 files — Authority: 121
  Christopher Ashs Out of the Storm is a great straight-forward companion to reading Job. In explaining Gods speeches at the end of the book he challenges an interpretation of chapters 40-41 which sees Leviathan and Behemoth as just powerful creatures that God created, i.e. an extension of 38:1-40:2 where God shows ...
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