With more than 1,200 participants from across the country, the two-day National Summit that ended Friday evening seemed simply to reflect President Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono's character as a politician who always does his best to appease everyone and offend no one at the expense of any real action.
Your comments:
Our Cabinet ministers may draw up good programs either for the first 100 days or for the next 5-year period. Nevertheless, if corruption cannot be eradicated, none of the program will be executed. The funds allocated for the programs will only become financial resources for the corruptors.
The eradication of corruption is not only a pivotal program, but a conditio sine qua non (an essential element) for the execution of the programs. We cannot allow any agent of any corrupter to be able to dictate the outcome of legal proceeding in a corruption case, but that it should be followed up by our law enforcement agencies, as demonstrated in the records displayed before the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.
If these court mafia practices are allowed to continue, either intentionally or accidentally, the 100-day or 5-year programs will turn out to be merely the 100-day or 5-year dreams of our government.
Yoseph Suardi Sabda
Jakarta
Shakespeare's small, serene hometown -- Nov. 1, p. 13
Stratford upon Avon is a fairly typical English market town made exceptional by the fact that it is the birthplace of the literary giant that is William Shakespeare. Indeed the town is so synonymous with the most outstanding playwright in the English language that for miles around road signs tell the traveling public that the town being approached is in fact "Shakespeare's Stratford".
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Stratford is Shakespeare's hometown, and this article shows how the town pays tribute to him and there is plenty of evidence there and in London that he was a playwright and an actor. His plays were collected and published after his death.
Maybe other actors and writers contributed to his amazing work, but there is no doubt that he wrote the majority of the work.
The idea that his wife wrote his plays sounds actually a bit silly to me but people will believe what they want to believe.
Wilson K.
Jakarta
Is there really evidence that Shakespeare's wife wrote any of his work?!? Here we go again, with conspiracy stories about who wrote some of the greatest works in English literature.
Was it Bacon, Marlowe, a Queen's Consort, Queen Elizabeth herself, a whole team of writers and Shakespeare never existed? It is all nonsense! Just read the works and appreciate and be thankful. Salute Shakespeare! Whoever he was.
Jim Philips
London
I think they should honor Shakespeare's wife equally, because it is known she had a huge influence on him. In fact, there is evidence she wrote some of his best works!
Zaki Zaim
Singapore
Thank you very much for this story. I am a teacher of English trying to teach my students Shakespeare: Hamlet currently, in fact, so this story helps me talk about his life.
Yani S.
Jakarta
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