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Arianna Huffington: On Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Shakespeare, and the Enemy in the Mirror
With graduations and commencement speeches in the air, I've been, more than usual, in a philosophical mood this month. One of the things this self-reflection -- aided and abetted by a flurry of recent headlines -- has led to is a reminder that, in the game of life, as Cassius said in Julius Caesar , "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars -- but in ourselves..." This was a frequent theme of Shakespeare's, who put it another way in All's Well That Ends Well , when Helena says: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven."
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La France vue par 16 historiens américains « Vupar
“Laura Lee Downs et Stéphane Gerson ont proposé à vingt historiens nord-américains spécialistes de la France de revenir sur leur itinéraire universitaire et de se plier ainsi à l’exercice de “l’ego-histoire”, un genre désormais bien admis dans la profession – seuls quatre historiens ont refusé de participer .