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Bard Thou Never Wert

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DUNN LORING, VA —Rarely do I feel gratitude and even affection, toward a book with which I profoundly disagree. But such is the case with James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (Simon & Schuster, 4/6/2010, 339 pp), a study of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Shapiro, who teaches at Columbia University, accepts the gent from Stratford as the real author, so I had to part company with him on page 8.

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Yawning at Subsidiarity

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One of the most interesting sideshows of the healthcare debate was the dustup between the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—which opposed enactment because the law subsidizes abortions—and the Catholic Health Association (CHA), which lobbied tirelessly for enactment, claiming that the law does not violate Catholic teaching on abortion.

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Mann Overboard

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Accuracy in Academia has identified several concerns regarding the inquiry committee’s report and Penn State’s ongoing conflicts of interest in conducting Professor Mann’s investigation.

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Generically Challenged

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The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 was passed to help bring generic drug competition into the pharmaceutical market, but panelists at a June 23rd Center for American Progress (CAP) discussion argued that the U.S. government should be doing more to regulate pharmaceutical companies.

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