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...felt a little bad for Charlotte, who gets infected by the zombie virus. Poor Charlotte. She can't catch a break. Not only does she get stricken with this strange plague and slowly turn into a zombie, but people say horrible things about her in this version. Like, she should just be happy that she's invited to this dinner party, she's a spinster, she should expect nothing more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness. Kind of playing up what Jane Austen had already put there...
...architecture and the break with traditions are beginning to influence designers in Muslim nations as well. Sometimes the change is simply a return to the religion's roots. Architect Zeynep Fadillioglu drew on her own experiences praying in mosques when designing the ultramodern Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul. "In the Prophet's time, men and women prayed next to each other," she says. "Lately, with the rise of political Islam everywhere, the women's sections have started to be covered up and boxed off. I've been in mosques like that, and I felt very uncomfortable...
...said. “It raises the most important discussion being had in the culture today.” Waters, an editor at the HUP, said that the panel made certain concepts in the humanities more accessible. “The barriers between the humanities break down when you listen to these two guys speak,” he said. At the end of the discussion, Taylor said, “I felt that the event was important in showing the complexity of civilization and the sacred and secular worlds. In it, one is not replacing the other, but there...
...informed to some extent by what happens in the House, and we'll learn from what they're trying to get done," said Senator Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat and longtime sponsor of climate-change legislation in the Senate. "My hope and belief is, by the time we break for August recess, we'll have had the opportunity to bring the bill to the [Senate] floor and hopefully start debating...
...annual assaults can be either subtle or brazen. And, really, people should see them coming. But in a media world addicted to drama and the bizarre, credulity will always take a hit. April Fools' Day 2009 is no different. From the Middle East, where peace threatened to break out, to Switzerland, where the national obsession with neatness created jobs for mountain cleaners, the world once again fell prey to an array of hoaxers, fibbers and tellers of tall tales - all excused by a strange yearly tradition of mysterious origin. Here are a few of the bogus news items that have...