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Sonnet CV
William Shakespeare
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in this change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone,
Which three till now, never kept seat in one.
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News
Today in History
On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" after witnessing how the Maryland fort endured British bombardment during the War of 1812; the poem later became the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Today in Music History
In 1994, Gordon Lightfoot bailed out of performing at a rally to save trees at the Ontario Place concert site on Toronto's waterfront. Lightfoot’s manager denied the singer was pressured to withdraw by MCA Concerts, the music company heading the site’s redevelopment.
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Shakespeare fans will hate Anonymous
Disaster blockbuster director Roland Emmerich is sure to rile fans of Shakespeare with his latest movie, Anonymous, for questioning the lionised bard's authorship of pre-eminent plays.
Theories abound. Some point to Shakespeare's famed contemporaries Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe as the real authors.
The film Anonymous, which premiered on Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival, focuses on Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as likely having written Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and other great works, as well as the best-known soliloquy, "To be or not to be, that is the question."
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Edano as Japan Trade Minister May Take Tough Stance on Tepco
Yukio Edano, Japan’s new trade minister, may take a tougher stance than his predecessors toward power monopolies including Tokyo Electric Power Co., as the government deals with the Fukushima crisis, analysts said.
Edano set the tone for the ministry that oversees Japan’s atomic power industry by repeating remarks he made earlier this year that Tokyo Electric creditors and shareholders should help pay for the costs associated with the Fukushima nuclear disaster, such as compensation claims.
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Baghdad Assailed Over Attack in Anbar
Just a few hours after the bodies of 22 executed Shiite pilgrims were found in western Anbar Province, Sunni leaders there erupted in anger on Tuesday at Iraq’s Shiite-led government, exposing yet another fault line in the country’s sectarian tensions.
The local leaders, concerned about a rising tide of violence in Anbar, which is predominantly Sunni, said the security forces sent into the province by the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki over the past year had been ignoring insurgent groups and had done little to protect the local population.
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Iran to soon free two U.S. hikers on bail, Ahmadinejad says
Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, who were detained along with a third hiker near the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009, will be freed once bail of $500,000 each is paid, their attorney says.
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Yale Gets $25 Million From Farallon Founder for Energy Science
Yale University received $25 million from Thomas Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management LLC, and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, to help open the school's Energy Sciences Institute.
The university will hire new faculty members to conduct research on renewable fuel sources in 40,000 square feet of laboratory space at Yale's West Campus, the New Haven, Connecticut-based school said today in an e-mailed statement.
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Troops end 20-hour Kabul attack
Afghan forces kill the last insurgents holed up in a multi-storey building to end a 20-hour attack on the US embassy and Nato HQ in Kabul.
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American Muslims Face Growing Prejudice
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, America's Muslims have become the country's internal enemy. Conservative forces have seized upon the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" as a rallying point. Amid all the hate, Americans have lost sight of the real problem: the fact that their country has become paranoid.
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