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...years later, she made the decision to convert the store into one that specialized in poetry. From its original 300 volumes of poetry, the Grolier Poetry Shop now has over 19,000. Nearly 30 years after Solano took over, the Grolier has a large following of readers. It offers one of the highest-quality poetry series in the area, which last year cost $17,000 to orchestrate. A steady stream of customers flows in, many of them students looking for a Norton Anthology or for the textbook for Helen Vendler’s class. The store also arranges an annual...
...safe, because these men cannot act alone. We have spoken much of Osama bin Laden, but the Taliban is his sponsor in sin. Without the Taliban’s tacit support, bin Laden would have been incapacitated long ago. Even the world’s most nefarious networks cannot convert their hatred into mass murder unless a government of sinister scoundrels buries its head in the sand and ignores the training camps and financial operations required to do what al Qaeda has done...
...renovations to the Pudding building, now slated to begin this spring (a full year later than originally planned), will convert the storied address into a state-of-the-art theater and space for student groups...
...Book," who worship the same God (29: 46). In words quoted by Muhammad in one of his last public sermons, God tells all human beings, "O people! We have formed you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another" (49: 13)--not to conquer, convert, subjugate, revile or slaughter but to reach out toward others with intelligence and understanding...
Despite dominating the flow of the game after halftime and outshooting Yale 19-9, the Crimson could not convert any of its scoring chances up until the climactic free kick. Those missed opportunities inspired Westfall to try something unique...