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Conservative Candidate Elected Mayor of London
New York Times - By SARAH LYALL and ALAN COWELL LONDON - Boris Johnson, the floppy-haired media celebrity and Conservative member of Parliament who transformed himself into a plausible political force, was elected mayor of London on Friday.

Springs will get veterans cemetery, official says
Colorado Springs Gazette - By TOM ROEDER Colorado Springs will get a veterans cemetery of its own, a top Department of Veterans Affairs boss said during a congressional hearing here Friday.

Jeremiah Wright's Wider Toll
Washington Post - By Gary MacDougal It is easy to be outraged by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's abhorrent remarks, whether accusing our country of willfully spreading AIDS or being deserving of the Sept.

"Now here we are. We're going to be producing our own stuff."
Washington Post - He's overseen everything from the assassination of Captain America to making it illegal to be a superhero without proper registration.

 

today's Ordinary Reading Assignment <== recent first rate books on Elizabethan drama

Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells 

Shakespeare the Thinker by A. D. Nuttall

Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber

David Riggs, "The World of Christopher Marlowe", Henry Holt and Co., 2005 ISBN 0-8050-8036-8

Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe Poet and Spy Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-19-818695-9

Constance Kuriyama,Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life. Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3978-7