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...Boston this Independence Day, Jacoby's column was read aloud from the balcony of the Old State House directly before the ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence. It was greeted with rousing applause...
...When you are in a position of administrative authority, your musings aloud can be mistaken for firm declarations of policy, so you have to be conscious of what you say. If I have felt a monitor on what I have expressed as provost, it is not from any political pressure, but from an effort to be accurate and to avoid misleading others. I have always felt free to express my views," Fineberg says in response...
...odds, Dillon, 56, still exhibits much of the stamina that earned her the sobriquet Energizer Bunny as she arranges author visits, runs writing contests and helps kids find books they will like. But since June 1998, she has had to give up the greatest joy of her job--reading aloud to children--because ALS has damaged the neurons that control speaking, chewing and swallowing. Read-alouds are now handled by volunteers. Eating will soon have to be handled through a feeding tube...
...moments when you can hardly tell them apart. A case in point is Optician, 1902. It's a shop sign stuffed with puns: a monocled terrier, with a pair of pince-nez above him and, below, the French word opticien, broken up to read O PTI CIEN--which, read aloud, translates as either "o little dog" or "at the sign of the little dog." This is exactly the sort of feeble punning that Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia went in for--a staple of Dada and Surrealism. But its author was the antimodernist par excellence Jean-Leon Gerome, sworn enemy...
...enlightening and heartbreaking journey of the Chinese illegal who risked his life to get to our wonderful country was fascinating. I would love to read the entire article aloud to my seventh-grade class, many of whom choose not to say the Pledge of Allegiance with me. They don't realize how lucky they are to be U.S. citizens. I wish Chen could speak to the students at my school. AMY CRIST Biglerville...