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William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known as the First Folio, could fetch between $4 million and $6 million at an upcoming auction at Christie’s New York. The book was published in 1623 by his friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell after Shakespeare died in 1616 at age 52. Containing 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, the First Folio is the first authoritative collection of his plays and ranks as one of the greatest works of world literature. The copy was offered for sale from the collection of Mills College in Oakland, Calif. It’s one of only six complete...

The first all-female college in the United States to admit male undergraduate students who identify themselves as female officially declared a “financial emergency” earlier this week. The women’s school in dire economic straits is Mills College in Oakland, California, reports Inside Higher Ed. The board of trustees announced that Mills is currently running a $9 million yearly operating deficit. The $9 million shortfall is about 16 percent of the school’s 2017 budget of $57 million. The budgetary crisis will cause professors and administrators to lose their jobs, trustees said. Also, there is a plan in the works to restructure the...

Pelosi Tells Mills College Grads To 'Be Ready' John King May 15, 2010 The 500-plus students who received degrees and certificates at Mills College in Oakland on Saturday were sent into the world by another graduate of a women's college: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In a commencement speech that steered clear of partisan politics, Pelosi emphasized the personal side of her ascent to power as the nation's first female speaker. "My message is: 'Be ready,' " the 1962 graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., told the students and their families and friends gathered on Toyon Meadow in the heart...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Sen. Barbara Boxer told Mills College graduates on Saturday that the United States needs to begin pulling troops out of Iraq this year. "We went to Iraq on false pretenses, and we're staying there on false hopes - false hopes that our military can solve the age-old problems there between ethnic groups," said Boxer, D-Calif. "The Iraqi people simply have to want democracy and freedom as much as we want it for them. And I want an exit strategy." ((snip)) She also warned graduates of the challenges they will face in the future, including protecting privacy...

So my fellow Freepers, here is the sickening part, a U.S. taxpayer funed prof, Julie Sudbury, from Mills College in Oakland, Calif., said: "Sept. 11 has created a blank slate for global domination of the Bush agenda of militarism and global capitalism ... He's no longer the Texas hangman. He appears to have become the global hangman."