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There's been a lot of fuss about Amazon's Kindle e-reader. But it's not high-class, top-shelf fuss - the fuss has a slightly tinny, synthetic quality to it. For example, Amazon announced that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, it sold more e-books than regular paper books. Which is impressive. Except Amazon won't say how many e-books that is. Or even how many Kindles are out there. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...political caricatures seethed with outrage, the man himself was gentle--he was happiest in a museum, studying Titian and Tintoretto, or with friends at his Wednesday-night life-drawing class, which he co-hosted for half a century...
Sarah Jukaku, a fifth-year senior at the University of Michigan and president of the school's Muslim Student Association, has a few friends who choose to cover their faces. They've never had problems with taking any tests ("If there's only one person in a class who chooses to wear a veil, I think the teacher would be able to easily tell if they're the one actually taking an exam," she says) or with discrimination from fellow students. In fact, says Jukaku, the pressure may come from somewhere unexpected - their own families. "A lot of my friends...
...state administration today to have your ID or passport renewed, and walk out virtually a stateless person," says Naulleau, 48, whose family had been posted to Baden-Baden, Germany - about 30 miles from the French border - when he was born in 1961. "The situation is creating a two-class system of citizenship in which French nationals born abroad or to foreign parents are treated as inferior, and forced to prove their worthiness of being French more than others." (See pictures of Bastille Day celebrations...
...this “Midsummer,” the Athenian characters tangled in various romantic webs are clothed as middle-class suburbanites; conversely, their mischievous fairy counterparts are dressed in alternative, urban outfits. Unfortunately, this aesthetic is poorly defined and inconsistent. Oberon, Titania, and Puck are dressed as goths, while their fairies are hip hop dancers. To boot, the scenery centers around a yellow, graffitied car that could have been plucked directly from the 1960s. This array of clashing aesthetics diminishes the show’s overall effect by confounding the audience’s sense of place and time...