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...extraordinarily important force in the dissemination of the ideas of literary criticism and feminism,” said Brad S. Epps, professor of Romance languages and literature at Harvard. “She was an incredibly gifted reader of text...
...drunk, editors. As the yelling and screaming about headlines and teasers surrounded her head, Christine took the eyedropper tool, the shaded box and the Futura font and went to town. Quicker than lightening, Christine is one of the most thoughtful, clever designers ever to “massage the text.” FM has no doubt that Christine will rise to graphic stardom...
...Mary explained. “Do you draw?” Vicky’s reply: “No. I sometimes doodle in class though.” Mary collected her thoughts and said, “Yes, I see your text next to your sketches...
...becomes ill, the local healer--who turns out, strangely, to be a black American--can examine her only by peering through an eyehole cut in a blanket; a place where one of her guides is an angry, untrustworthy child who has been expelled from an Islamic school whose only text is the Koran...
There's a phrase in the Quran, ahl al-kitab, - which roughly translates as "The People of the Book" or "people of an earlier revelation" - that refers to Jews and Christians as people, like Muslims, who belong to a faith that is rooted in a sacred text. Karen Armstrong, in her recent tome "Islam: A Short History," quotes a line from the Quran that reads "Do not argue with the followers of an earlier revelation otherwise than in a most kindly manner..." It's a gentle, nonconfrontational passage that contrasts sharply with the uncompromising rhetoric many Westerners associate with fundamentalist...