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Untitled Poem
William Shakespeare
Farewell, the reign of cruelty:
Though that with pain my liberty
Dear have I bought, yet shall surety
Conduit my thought of Joy's needy.
Of force I must forsake pleasure,
A good cause just since I endure
Thereby my woe: which be ye sure
Shall therewith go me to recure.
I fare as one escaped that fleeeth;
Glad that is gone, yet still feareth;
Spied to be caught; and so dreadeth
That he for nought his pain leeseth.
In joyfull pain rejoice mine heart
Thus to sustain of each a part;
Let not this song from thee astart;
Welcome among my pleasant smart.
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News
Today in History
1978 - 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1971 - 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses"
1941 - Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
Today in Music History
1978 - Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt
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Henry Winkler Honored by The Queen
Winkler, who played the Fonz in the classic U.S. sitcom "Happy Days," has been awarded an honorary OBE for his educational work on dyslexia in the U.K.
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Civil Rights leaders respond to Jackie Kennedy
Civil Rights leaders and associates of the Rev. Martin Luther King had mixed reactions to the disparaging comments that former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy made about King.
Kennedy’s comments are published in a new book entitled “Jacqueline Kennedy; Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.”
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Men, kick the butt to light up your sex life
Lighting up could be slowing you down in the bedroom. A US study suggests that men who successfully stopped smoking improved on lab measurements of sexual health more than those who relapsed after a quit-smoking program, showing that smoking may be affecting the sexual health of men who consider themselves perfectly all right in bed, researchers said.
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Iraq Intervenes to Help Free US Hikers From Iran
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has stepped in to help secure the release of two American hikers jailed in Iran.
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Photo Essay: In Afghanistan, battlefield still lures the young
The government and its allies have crafted a program to reintegrate the country’s youngest insurgents into mainstream society, but the teenagers say, “We cannot be changed.”
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Morgan: Political humor
If ever we needed some humor in politics, now is the time. The recent deficit debacle in D.C. did nothing to get us laughing. A record 87 percent of Americans in a recent poll view the congress in a glaringly negative light. The president's numbers are nothing to brag about, either, but Congress gets the brunt of Americans' frustrations with current politics. (Speaking of government deficits, Reagan said, "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." He also said: "Facts are stupid things.")
Mark Twain had frustrations with the congress of his day, too. "Reader," he wrote, "suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Don't tell me you haven't had the same thought this summer.
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