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...readers become skilled, something interesting happens: the third section--the automatic detector--becomes more active. Its function is to build a permanent repertoire that enables readers to recognize familiar words on sight. As readers progress, the balance of the symphony shifts and the automatic detector begins to dominate. If all goes well, reading eventually becomes effortless...
...since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russians have been looking back more fondly on tsarist days. Old Russian typography is becoming increasingly popular in Russian advertising. Books on Nicholas that would have never made it to print 20 years ago now fill the history section of the city’s central book store, Dom Knigi (“House of Book”). Portraits of the last tsar are on sale a few floors up. And now he’s an Orthodox saint, if only of the lowest order...
...flag seems somehow out of step in a newly patriotic country. After Sept. 11, flags sprouted from houses and car antennas, soon branding Old Navy t-shirts and fluttering in the corner of the Fox News screen. Pride blanketed the country, and my exhibit added a new section on what the flag means in a post-Sept. 11 world...
...praise USA Today has got for its longer investigative stories--that is, for being like "respectable" newspapers--reaffirming its commitment to accessible news is just as laudable. The paper helped broaden the definition of news beyond the preoccupations of elites: the lead story in its Money section is more likely to be about rising cable rates than about the latest deal struck by a cable corporation, and it doesn't look down on readers who want to read about new food-labeling regulations before, say, the U.S. stance on Liberia. Granted, the paper still sometimes runs ditsy articles that seem...
...documentary is inspired by Dead Certainty, a book by noted historian and former Harvard professor Simon Schama, whose section “Death of a Harvard Man” explores the case from the perspectives of multiple characters...