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...text for this myth is the famous Le Monde editorial of Sept. 12, 2001, titled "We Are All Americans." But as Johns Hopkins professor Fouad Ajami points out, not only did that very editorial speak of America's paying for its cynicism, but also, within months, that same Le Monde publisher was back with a small book ("All Americans? The World After September 11, 2001"--note the question mark) filled with the usual belligerence toward and disapproval of America...
...quixotic at best and harmful at worst. That which distinguishes drawn books from prose is what we love about them. The Artistry is different - way beyond mere genre - and must be celebrated. In order to talk about the unique pleasures of drawn books we necessarily distinguish them from their text-only relatives...
Macauley’s books combine detailed sketches and comprehensive text to detail how some of the world’s most astounding buildings have been constructed. After a lengthy authorial run spent meticulously studying the creation of monumental structures—among them an English castle, Egyptian pyramids, and a Roman city—Macaulay said he found in religious architecture a source of inspiration for Mosque...
...Amazon.com The No. 1 online bookseller just added an astonishingly clever feature called "Search Inside the Book," which turns the site into the Google of literature. Every page of some 120,000 in-print titles has been scanned into a vast computer database and can be accessed as text. This doesn't mean you'll be reading your favorite best sellers on Amazon for free; there are limits on how many pages you can browse in a single book. But it does mean you can do the kind of comprehensive search that most librarians would give their Dewey decimal systems...
...campus' 18,000 students concluded the Japanese had been out to humiliate China. Posters appeared on dormitory walls. "Protect our nation, throw out the attackers," read one. Rumors that the Japanese had worn pig's heads and had racist insults written on their costumes circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign students' dormitory and sang the Chinese national anthem, before shouting for the "Japanese pigs" to come out and apologize. When no one appeared, protesters broke windows with bricks, burst into the dorm and beat...