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...when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk created a modern nation-state on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Determined that Turkey's future lay with the West and that modernization was its priority, Ataturk shut down religious schools, abolished the caliphate - Islam's equivalent to the papacy - changed the country's alphabet from Arabic to Roman script and enshrined the separation of mosque and state as a founding principle...
Blount has written introductions for six editions of Twain's work. His next book, Alphabet Juice, will be published in October by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...audacious to hope that the recent earthquake - and the Olympic Games - might convince the Chinese to abandon their ancient, inefficient writing system - the real Great Wall of China - and adapt the Roman alphabet? Alex Farkas, SUNNYVALE, CALIF...
...audacious to hope that the recent earthquake disaster, together with the upcoming Olympic Games, might nudge the Chinese towards abandoning their ancient, inefficient writing system - the real Great Wall of China - and adapt the Roman alphabet? Alex Farkas, Sunnyvale, California...
...Ever since, students have been learning about theater almost as soon as they're learning the alphabet. The school's theater study begins with fairy tales: what they've meant to families and artists alike. And the children get their lessons from the pros: almost 80 theater actors, directors, writers, musicians and other theater people have made guest appearances. Vanessa Redgrave read from Snow White, portraying the witch and explaining to the class how she came to know the story as a child in her native England, when her mother gave her a book during wartime. Producer Scott Rudin told...