Word: claime
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...made quite a clumsy statement at a time when the tension between civilizations is growing. I disagree with any attempt to draw a line between Islam and Christianity by trying to prove that the former is more "irrational" than the latter. Christianity's violent past shows that such a claim can't be justified. Andriy Sukhodub Dundee, Scotland Pope Benedict XVI's claim that the words he quoted from a 14th century Byzantine Emperor do not reflect his own views raises a most puzzling question: Why then did he quote them? If the Pope's intentions had been more pious...
...sell into the future," he says. "You can't just come out here and sell nothing. But more than selling now, I want to create an awareness that I have an entertaining brand." That's exactly the sort of sales-speak that makes publishers dance. While most editors claim a love for literature, they need to move the merchandise. "You're more likely to find that sort of hustler, business mentality among street-lit authors," says Monique Patterson, a senior editor at St. Martin's. "The streets are all about going out and being competitive and hustling your own stuff...
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...dramatically. Few tutors were appointed after 1878 and none between 1904 and 1914; this while professors were being hired en masse. When tutors began to be hired again, their definition had changed; no longer were they teachers who also interacted with students; now they were graduate students, with no claim to specialized knowledge and with no claim to guide a student as to how he might live...
...evening's entertainment was Foley. Before last week, his claim to fame on the Hill was a knack for impersonations and storytelling. He could mimic Bill Clinton, and both sides of an argument between outgoing House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, a California Republican, and the panel's ranking Democrat, Charles Rangel of Harlem (two very different and very vivid characters). Foley regaled us with hilarious stories, about such things as the bizarre celebrity world of Rep. Sonny Bono, since killed in a skiing accident. Picture Cher dropping by the home of her ex-husband with new love...