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...show making the rounds on YouTube. It's called "Middle Ages Tech Support," and it's about a medieval monk who's having trouble with a new piece of technology, something called a "book." He gets his tech-support guy in to walk him through it. "Compared to the scroll," the monk complains, "it takes longer to turn the pages ..." And so on. Maybe it's funnier in Norwegian...
...there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways of bush tucker-all that had been inscribed there before them, in a hidden language never noticed, became suddenly visible." Mary, in turn, is absorbed into Perdita's world of books, finding sanctuary under "the roof-shaped protection of open volumes...
...front runners look like foreign policy clones. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all want to get out of Iraq. They all want to double down in Afghanistan. And they're all for a diplomatic deal with Iran. To find someone who sounds really different, you have to scroll down--past Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd--all the way to Dennis Kucinich, near the rock bottom of the 2008 field...
...Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale, Kaldor is part impresario, part philanthropist. "John's role is more precisely defined as someone who is the visionary," explains Juliana Engberg, a curatorial advisor for Venice. He also happens to be just about the best-connected Australian in the art scene. Scroll through the membership of New York MoMA's International Council, and there are Kaldor and his partner, the Melbourne fashion-chain head Naomi Milgrom. At London's Tate Modern, the pair are listed just below Sir Elton John and David Furnish. "I didn't realize," says the softly spoken, Hungarian...
...spare pejorative words, he asks of the Radcliffe Institute, what do “these women” actually do for a living? He says that Drew Faust only writes about “gender” and “ritual.” Had he bothered to scroll down to the end of whatever Web site he was on, he might have found things more to his liking. For instance, he would have learned that one of Prof. Faust’s main works is on James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina planter and senator, a real...