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...spite of competing forms of entertainment, people continue to read and, most importantly, to want to write. The aspiring writer faces a number of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The most daunting, of course, is securing a publisher...
However Dinklage, while he believes that individuals can overcome problems associated with dyslexia, says that he does not see dyslexia as an advantage. People "can do things in spite of it, not because of it," he says. In our culture, centered around reading and language skills, dyslexia is a particular disadvantage, Dinklage adds...
...spite of the Club's exclusivity, itsofferings are legion. On a busy day, the Clubfeeds some 600 hungry souls--now that's a lot ofpeople. The Theater Room in basement serves aninformal buffet luncheon, and guest bedrooms onthe third floor provide housing for guest bedroomson the third floor provide housing for guests ofthe University, at $115 per night. For mostobservers, however, the Faculty Club is synonymouswith the main dining room, on the ground floor,where breakfast, lunch and dinner are servedamidst the buzz of star faculty and the aura of YeOlde Harvard...
...article in the Atlantic which gave Barrett national recognition, he wrote, "Call it Huck Finn's law: The authentic American flourishes in spite of schooling, not because...
...hope so, but Yeltsin is increasingly lonely on that side. In spite of Yeltsin's pleas, Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the engineer of the reform train, said he would not remain in a government that was irresponsible enough to spend $500 million it does not have on a new - Parliament Building and to dilute its floundering ruble by bringing Belarus into a currency union with Russia. Gaidar finally walked out, explaining, "I cannot serve in the government and at the same time be in opposition to it." Yeltsin, Gaidar told TIME, "is trying to protect the reform process...