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Whether English-speaking readers adopt the Khazars with equal fervor remains to be seen. The runaway success of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1983) may be a precedent, since both novels offer murders mixed with medieval arcana. But Pavic does not convey anything resembling the suspense generated by Eco's relentlessly straightforward, deductive progress toward the darkness at the heart of an obscure monastery. Instead, in the "Preliminary Notes" to this presumptive dictionary, readers are advised to proceed in any manner or order they choose: "No chronology will be observed here, nor is one necessary...
...that the burgeoning population of students from non-English-speaking households, and the teacher's primary task -- to convey knowledge -- can become nearly impossible. "Society has taken the position that teachers ought to succeed with everybody: the economically disadvantaged, racial minorities, the handicapped," says P. Michael Timpane, president of Teachers College at Columbia University. "No one took those issues seriously a generation...
...house. Soon afterward, the boy himself was fatally shot. In poor rural areas, the deprivation can be even more elemental. "I've got kids that have never held a pencil before," says a Mississippi kindergarten teacher. "And last year I had one that had never held silverware." Trying to convey the majesty of Shakespeare or even basic | addition and subtraction to such children can be a near impossibility...
...stressing worker empowerment and democracy, experts say that HUCTW was able to convey another increasingly popular message for the labor movement--the idea that the employer does not have to be the enemy...
...both at the equator and at the poles, depending upon the distance from 38 degrees north or 38 degrees south, which he chose as his standard parallels. "Only at these latitudes are the size and shape relationships accurate, as they are on the globe," says Robinson. To convey a sense of roundness, the map has been given curved sides. The Geographic Society's new map, like its predecessor, is centered on Europe, in part because focusing on the U.S. would divide the Asian landmass. The result, declares Garver, is "the best balance available between geography and aesthetics...