"What's in a name?" asked William Shakespeare, who remains the best William of all time (just ahead of Shatner) and the second best Shakespeare ever (after the late Miami Hurricanes receiver Stanley Shakespeare). Answer: Names contain multitudes. Names connect people (and non-people) of wildly different talents, be they Mickeys (Mantle, Mouse) or Rickys (Rubio, Ricardo). The following power index, which will appear at regular intervals, is a definitive ranking of people who share the same first or last name. It is almost entirely serious and thoroughly pseudo-scientific. It is arbitrary and inarguable and above all fair-weather, reflecting the subjects' status this very week, preferably this very hour.
Off the beaten path of the Los Angeles theater district, troubadours are resurrecting Shakespeare in an adaptation that would make the Bard smile.
There are rumors going around -- literally going around, on the infinite loop of the ticker -- that Magic center Dwight Howard will be traded to Chicago or Dallas or possibly the Lakers. Rumor likewise has it that Knicks' forward Amare Stoudemire could be traded, as well as Blue Jackets' right wing Rick Nash, though sadly not for each other, no matter how up for it Knicks' management would be.
Why did women start carrying handbags? Here, the answer to this and other puzzlers.
A theater company from South Sudan is translating Shakespeare into the local dialect for the first time, before performing the play at London's Globe Theatre.
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Ali Velshi and Chrsitine Romans, authors of "How to Speak Money" on the value of a college degree.
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A new film is set to re-open one of the most persistent questions in literary history - was William Shakespeare a fraud?
The idea that Shakespeare did not write the works attributed to him didn't surface until 1856, 240 years after he died. Until then no one even suggested he might not have done so.
It will be Shakespeare as nobody has seen it before. Over six weeks next spring, London's Globe Theatre will present all 37 of the Bard's plays in 37 languages, performed by companies from as many countries.
It's a time-honored adage about the laws of probability: Give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare.
Between mothers and daughters, there's love -- and a whole lot of other stuff. How do you undo past misunderstandings? One woman gives it a shot with this list.
There have been press conferences and secret meetings.
Every biologist, botanist, and zoologist will tell you the same thing: Nature loves variety. People may fear it, and some religious or political groups may hate it -- but Nature loves it.
Soak up the summer atmosphere -- along with some sun -- by exploring the culture and creativity that fills these five festivals.
"We are happy to announce that both children are home safe," their families say
I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
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The first production in centuries of a lost Shakespeare play has experts debating who really wrote it. CNN's Nick Glass reports.
Now starring in Julie Taymor's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," the Oscar-winning dame shares her thoughts on sad books, holey socks, and the weirdest, most wonderful gift she's ever received.
Back in the day, Shakespeare enriched the English language by pumping out neologisms like a maniac. Fast forward 400-plus years, and we don't really have an official bard, per se -- at least not in corporeal form.
In this tech-saturated world, few things are more annoying than car navigation systems that yell at you for making a wrong turn.
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Shakespeare's opinion aside, for many of us, our names are inextricably tied to who we are.
About two hours from bustling Milan and touristy Venice is Verona -- a welcome sip of pure, easygoing Italy. Made famous by Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers, Verona is Italy's fourth-most-visited city and second in the Veneto region only to Venice in population and artistic importance. If you don't need world-class sights, this town is a joy.
When Gary Buslik graduated from college with a degree in English, his parents were concerned about how he'd earn a decent living. "It worried them to hear me quoting Shakespeare," he jokes.
To most people, the literary debate over who wrote the works of William Shakespeare would appear to be much ado about nothing. After all, the play's the thing, right? What does it matter who wrote it?
Shakespearean experts have deemed a play dismissed as an elaborate theatrical hoax by 18th century critics to be the true, albeit heavily diluted, work of the Bard.
Guessing who will win the major awards at Sunday night's Oscars is hardly like picking winning lottery numbers.
I've been writing about investing for nearly a quarter of a century. And if I've learned one thing after counseling Money readers through three recessions, three stock market crashes, and two derivatives debacles (yes, two: 14 years before the recent flare-up with mortgage-backed securities, derivatives tripped up several government income and money-market funds), it's this: Savvy investing need not be complicated. Just focus on what's most important to stay on the path to financial success and filter out all the noise along the way.
All the world's a stage, Shakespeare wrote long before television came into view.
PEOPLE's movie critic weighs in on the Twilight sequel and finds her interest waning
On a recent afternoon along Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, young aspiring actors recited passages from Shakespeare's Henry V as jugglers, break-dancers, and blowers of didgeridoos displayed their skills nearby, creating a visual and aural cacophony. Just another day in a thriving college town -- this one happening to be home to the University of Vermont.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law prove "the play's the thing"
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches.
Surprise casting news for Twilight's third installment aside, vote for Bryce or Rachelle in Eclipse
Where do you begin in a city of this size? How about at the lively South Bank of the Thames, near Waterloo Station? Start with a spin on the London Eye, a colossal Ferris that will take you up 130 meters for an unmatched view of the city.
Hast thou been patterning thy parlance to evoke the vernacular of William Shakespeare?
A portrait painted 400 years ago and kept anonymously in an Irish home for much of the time since is now believed to be the only painting of William Shakespeare created during his lifetime.
One was a theater, another, a church, and at varying times over the past century all have provided inspiration and refuge to both great literary minds and harried shoppers.
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CNN's Business Traveller takes a look at the best books for the road and the history behind the Gideon bible.
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Myleene Klass takes a closer look at the making of new animated film 'Igor'.
Since receiving the Ivor Novello award for best film theme for his work on Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" in 1989, Patrick Doyle's compositions have been a sought after commodity in the film world.
In this ragged Steve Coogan comedy about a struggling actor's hapless high school production, satire goes south
Writers can be notoriously prickly about new technology.
Italian rider Riccardo RiccÒ is thrown out of the world's most famous cycle race after testing positive for a banned blood booster
Baz Luhrmann is the type of director for whom the word innovative was invented.
The Super Bowl has grown so big that we could think of only one man to cover it: William Shakespeare. The Bard was in Arizona when the two teams met the media yesterday and filed this exclusive play.
In a folktale that has been retold for centuries in many variations (one of which is Shakespeare's "King Lear"), an elderly king asks his three daughters how much they love him. The two older sisters deliver flowery speeches of filial adoration, but the youngest says only "I love you as meat loves salt."
In a recent interview with The Buffalo News, newly minted NHL Players Association boss Paul Kelly was asked about the 600-plus page Collective Bargaining Agreement, a document forged in the wake of the season-long lockout of 2004-05 and one that both the union and the league are still trying to comprehend fully.
It's a common theory that, given enough time (and food ... and ink ribbon), a million monkeys on a million typewriters will eventually bang out the works of Shakespeare. But that only goes for average monkeys.
Why shoes are called "pumps" and other strange-but-true stories behind the clothes and accessories you know and love.
Hopes were high, with the likes of Kenneth Branagh, Harold Pinter, Michael Caine and Jude Law at the helm. But the result's a disaster.
"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be," Shakespeare advised. But after last week's half-point cut of the federal funds rate, savers are the ones who might be taking a hit.
A ridiculous amount of time and energy has already gone into picking the next President, which would lead you to suppose the matter is of some consequence. Of course the person who serves as leader of the Free World matters (ask anyone in Baghdad), but over the long sweep of history it counts for less than we may think.
A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
EVER since I took my meds this morning, I've felt strangely qualified to serve up some expert opinion on drugs in sports. Of course, that might just be the drugs talking, but it seems to me that for centuries, some of our greatest minds (and apparently bodies) have been influenced by the kinds of herbs and vices that make human growth hormone look like a vitamin supplement. Thou dost take issue with that view? Perhaps thou hast forgotten that Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley were opium fiends, Charlie Parker chased more dragons than St. George, and Elvis went tits-up on the growler because narcotics make you feel like there's a 50-pound pineapple stuck in your doggie-door.
Creativity is the buzzword in many a modern boardroom, yet some in business still complain that too many newly-minted MBAs are competent but uninspired, well-versed in the technical theory but lacking in imagination.
He is a powerful but flawed leader who ignores repeated warnings about his vulnerability and is eventually murdered by plotters including his closest friend.
Bloggers are the new opinion-shapers and trendsetters, according to... well, bloggers, mainly. Here's how to set up your own virtual soapbox and get heard amid the cranks and loudmouths of that online Speakers Corner, the "Blogosphere."
(CNN) -- How to start your own country.
Apart from recruiting executives with an MBA or EMBA, companies around the world spend millions every year on management and leadership courses for existing employees.
Once upon a time, retirement meant one thing: uprooting yourself to a warm locale where crime was low and doctors were abundant, and then living happily ever after playing bridge and bacci ball.
When Shakespeare asked "What's in a name?" he was talking about doomed love, not political debate. But if you look at the argument over immigration, you can see how just about every word we use is packed with powerful meaning.
An advertising executive once noted, "People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it." Columbia University professor James Shapiro is reminding us how quickly a certain job was done.
(CNN) -- "The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life," so said Oscar Wilde.
Few are born gray, some achieve grayness and many others have grayness thrust upon them.
As the financial world awaits the Federal Reserve meeting today, and frets over whether or not the Fed will drop the phrase "measured pace" from its policy statement, suddenly it's not the yield curve but Shakespeare that pops into my head.
SHAKESPEARE GOT IT wrong when his Othello said, "Who steals my purse steals trash ... but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed." Wer...
If you thought Dustin Hoffman was a riot in "Meet the Fockers," the inevitable sequel to "Meet the Parents," wait till you see him acting even less restrained in the outtakes.
A car bomb exploded at a theater near a British school in the Qatari capital of Doha on Saturday night, killing a British national and wounding 12 others, said the Qatari Interior Ministry.
Contrary to popular perception, Shakespeare didn't really suggest that killing all the lawyers might be a good thing. But that hasn't stopped some people from wishing they would just go away.
The 9/11 Commission Report is one of the finalists for the prestigious National Book Awards, a rare appearance for a government report.
Today's the day for forking over your taxes to the U.S. government, if you haven't already.
Ken and Carol Adelman like nothing more than to see a CEO in tights. They aren't voyeurs; rather, the two former Republican politicos run Movers & Shakespeares, which uses lessons from the Bard to ...
Ever since Wess Roberts' Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun hit the bestseller lists back in the 1980s, writers have drawn business lessons from an unlikely assortment of historical figures, from...
Hi, my name is Arlyn, and I'm an online shopaholic. My addiction began last year when I, like 30 million other Americans, whittled down my Christmas shopping list mouse click by mouse click. Browsi...
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One man's synergy is another man's mirth. To boost its new auction business, Amazon.com has introduced a feature on its Website that suggests auction items whenever you search for a book, CD, or an...
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Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...
If anyone ever decides to heed that advice in Shakespeare's Henry IV and "kill all the lawyers," a good starting place would be U.S. Business Litigation's annual survey of America's 1,000 largest l...
Looking for stock quotes? Recipes? Tax forms? Sports stats? The latest TV guide? What you hear over and over is "you can find that on the Internet." But how many times have you routed that suggesti...
"THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE lawyers," Shakespeare wrote. You may be tempted to second that emotion, with the O.J. lawyer madness and the cost of hiring an attorney now ranging $100 t...
One weekend in college, I read Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, getting ready for a lecture that followed a few days later. "Tiny steps for tiny minds" seemed to be the professor's philosophy. O...
Madonna may not seem like she belongs in the same halls as Shakespeare and Plato, but in recent years she has become one of the hottest items in academia. In classrooms from Houston to New York and...
Staffs at several supermarket stores around Britain have taken to renaming packets of gingerbread men . . . ''gingerbread persons'' in a bid to take away references to gender. The move in branches ...
Caesar divided all Gaul into just three parts, and Shakespeare summed up a man's life in only seven ages. So how come MONEY needs 11 separate categories to define fixed-income funds? After all, as ...
Far more fun than collecting stamps in the present period are noting and cataloguing the succession of dopey ideas that suddenly get to be rated politically correct. For example, the idea that the ...
We have lots of national problems: the plight of blacks and the homeless, AIDS, poverty. But the ignorance of the intellectual class is our greatest problem. Radical egalitarianism and the doctrine...
When Jean-Marie Descarpentries, the burly boss of French packaging group Carnaud, paid $1.4 billion for Britain's Metalbox Packaging last October, he acquired more than just a business. He bought h...
If one of your grandmother's sterling silver forks gets mangled by the garbage disposal, don't despair. The following services can replace anything from a piece of silver to a Model T carburetor. C...
Ever since the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opened 25 years ago with a production of Hamlet, regional theater has been a powerful cultural force in America. Such hits as Agnes of God, Crimes of t...
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