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...tiresomely jokey style. But her book teems with amusing and appalling examples of mangled punctuation (starting with her title, which comes from a gag about a zoology entry on the panda), offers a lot of clear and helpful advice, and takes delightful detours into history. Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have...
...another year at Hogwarts. But a lot has changed. Death, which was always part of the subtext of Rowling's story, burst out into the open in the previous novel, and the atmosphere in Phoenix has darkened accordingly. Voldemort is back, and Hogwarts' sage headmaster Aldus Dumbledore has organized some of the wizarding world's heavy hitters--your Mad-Eye Moody, your Remus Lupin--into an informal league called the Order of the Phoenix to oppose the evil wizard and his followers...
WHAT HARRY LEARNS: As Hogwarts headmaster Aldus Dumbledore puts it, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities...
...card through its website--and distributes them to antipoverty organizations, to which it offers management support and from which it requires accountability. "What we do is not only give money but business skills and expertise in marketing, public relations, technology, financial and business management," explains Paul Brainerd, president of Aldus Corp. and founder of Social Venture Partners, a nonprofit consortium for techies who don't merely write checks but also lend their skills...
Desktop publishing, a market that the Macintosh has traditionally dominated, has already staked its claim on the Power Macintosh. Aldus Corporation and Adobe Systems have announced native versions of their popular page-layout and graphics development packages concurrently with the release of the Power...