Three years after their deaths, celebrity chef Julia Child and hospice care pioneer Elisabeth Kubler-Ross will be enshrined with seven others in the National Women's Hall of Fame.The 2007 honor roll, unveiled Thursday, includes engineer Dr. Eleanor Baum, social reformer and philanthropist Swanee Hunt, environmental...

Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," died after a battle with pneumonia, her son said Wednesday. She was 96."She passed away peacefully" Tuesday night in her Manhattan apartment,...

A. D. Cousins, Macquarie University As might be expected, much of the more recent commentary on Lucrece has focused on the interrelated matters of politics, gender, and subjectivity. The poem's representation of the Roman world and its politics, especially its sexual/gender politics, has been studied; how Lucrece emerges from the variously political discourses of later Elizabethan society, and its negotiations with them, have been considered; the poem's representations of subjectivity in relat...