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Dowd: Trump takes leading role in tale of the untamable shrew Feb. 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Is Shakespeare a misogynist? Should “The Taming of the Shrew” be retired, given Kate’s archaic speech of surrender at the end, laying out what women “oweth” to their husbands, or sovereigns, and urging wives to put their hands under their husband’s feet? Can that speech be mitigated if Kate winks at the end, as Mary Pickford did in the 1929 movie with Douglas Fairbanks? Or if Kate poison...

San Francisco teachers gather for vigil on reopening plan as negotiations continue FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 Felix Lang, 2, father Nick, and Xavier, 6, attend a candlelight vigil near City Hall on Saturday in support of teachers’ reopening plan.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Susie Siegle holds a sign at a candlelight vigil in San Francisco on Saturday to support teachers amid school reopening negotiations.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ...

Fifty years ago, I was a teenager. Boy, do I miss those Days of Yore. It’s not that I would like to relive them, but I was a much different

Monica McNutts rapid rise at ESPN continues with Around the Horn debut Scott Allen, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Monica McNutt will make her "Around The Horn" debut on Wednesday.ESPN handout photo by Travis Bell Monica McNutts year is off to a whirlwind start and showing no signs of slowing down. Less than two weeks after the ACC Network host and analyst made her "SportsCenter" debut in late January, McNutt was on the call for the womens basketball thriller between No...

U.S. viewers will get to watch the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics live.

Commentary: Margaret Menge - School closings compound pandemic blues Margaret Menge FacebookTwitterEmail Things will get better soon, moms tell each other. But headlines — from Chicago, where the teachers union has adamantly refused to return to work; to Nashua, New Hampshire, where desperate parents are mounting a recall effort to remove pro-union members from the school board — offer little hope schools will reopen. President Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, has appeared to back the u...

Commentary: Sheon Karol - Human resilience offers hope for the post-COVID future Sheon Karol FacebookTwitterEmail Are we resilient or emotionally fragile? Our society wrestles endlessly with this question. A new government has assumed power and our economic future will be determined by whether the Biden administration and investors view us as psychologically damaged, or able to withstand the suffering of the COVID period. Human fragility underlies the bleak view of the post-COVID world provided...

S.F. school district, unions reach tentative deal to reopen classrooms FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Parents pick up work packets at George Peabody Elementary in San Franciscos Richmond District on Dec. 9, 2020.Emily FancherShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Kevin Robinson, a San Francisco guest teacher, displays signs his first-grade son Reid made for a news conference calling for the city’s schools to reopen in-person instruction.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9 Student...

Giving Back to Community: Homeless Youth in Chennai Teaches Street Children Who Cannot Afford Online Classes FOLLOW US ON: Living on the streets himself, 22-year-old Solomon has always understood the difficulties children from his community face. The lack of facilities, especially resources for education made him give something back to children from his community and thus, surrounded by at least 15-20 children aged between 6 to 14 years of age every evening, Solomon teaches them. Some sit with...

The tentative agreement to safely reopen public schools is a major step in a contentious,...