Word: text
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...battle to distill the truth from pages of legal text and the spin armies of interested parties, “for a reporter, knowledge is power,” Greenhouse said...
Professor Janet Beizer, a fellow of Jardine’s in the Romance Languages and Literatures department, calls the book a monumental text. “She reads women and [the notion of] the feminine across cultures, languages, across genders, across oceans,” she says...
Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America David L. Carrasco wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that he “prefers to wait until the full text is available before passing a full judgement, but if these excerpts are representative, the book appears to present a mediocre study, at best...
...dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics was Champollion's great work, and Meyerson tells the story as a passionate linguistic love affair. After finally solving the mystery, Champol lion collapsed in a coma for eight days...
...welter of war, tax cuts and cultural pandering to the religious right. The first director of the office, John DiIulio, resigned in frustration. But DiIulio always believed the President was sincere in his commitment to faith-based antipoverty programs and, as Bush spoke last week--informally, skimming his text--it was almost possible to forget his sorry record, although the rhetoric was often shameless. "We're talking about healing our nation," he began. "We're not talking about politics. We're all here to do everything in our power to save lives ... I'm here to thank you for hearing...