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That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably...
...Marginally more professional was ?Fahrenhype 9/11,? narrated by ex-Leftie haranguer Ron Silver and co-written by tabloid scandal-magnet Dick Morris. This flabby, flailing enterprise pokes some of the same holes in ?Fahrenheit? that mainstream journalists had already spotted - and here I must join Moore in wishing aloud that these journalists had been half as resourceful in challenging the WMD claims of Bush-Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld - while padding the rest out with malice, fat jokes and campaign speeches for the Republican ticket...
...Science: Aristotle Leads the Way (Smithsonian Books; 282 pages). Hakim's chatty style and character-driven stories have won her legions of fans. At age 11, Ethan Denny in Athens, Ga., wrote her to say she made him "feel that you are sitting next to me reading the books aloud." To date, Hakim's books have sold more than 4 million copies. According to Oxford University Press, which published her 10-volume American-history series, A History of US, her texts are used in thousands of classrooms in nearly every state. She has been called the J.K. Rowling of textbooks...
...make a deal. They can do so because of arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster and get almost anything done. As it happens, the filibuster is a tactic Reid quite enjoys, since it gives him the opportunity to stall proceedings by reading aloud long passages from the book he wrote about Searchlight. His utter mastery of the rules and his reputation for honesty are why he got the job after his friend Tom Daschle of South Dakota was defeated for re-election...
Reid's position on abortion is both honorable and clever. These are formidable qualities in a legislative minority leader. The willingness--and toughness--to read aloud, in public, long, long passages about life in Searchlight won't hurt, either...