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...scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight, you can read every page of any e-book in all of the same settings that you'd read a tome made out of old fashioned ink, paper and glue...
...write. During my military service, I created a lot of couples - I was a good love-letter writer." Now, instead of matchmaking, he maintains "Italians," the daily newspaper Corriere della Serra's popular online column, his attempt to cultivate what in La Bella Figura he calls "the curious glue that, despite everything, binds the nation." This persistent, if modest, voice may be what bridges the gap between Italy's national languor and a future embrace of the rest of the world. Severgnini has a very specific bridge in mind. "Not the Ponte dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs...
...death rattle of religion right now. Its parameters which were totally appropriate and defendable for the history of man are on the verge of being obsolete, and that is because of this real and cyber global community that we are in now. Isolation of cultures, which was the glue, is vanishing. We need to have a faith, a type of belief that makes sense to everyone in the room who hears it. In the Buddhist philosophy, it is all boats to get us to the shore. We have to let go of the feeling that the boat is the shore...
...wordplay of this particularly exquisite language." Bill Clinton solves his Times crosswords as he would a political problem: "You start with what you know the answer to, and you just build on it." Jon Stewart begins a Tuesday puzzle with such confidence, "I'm gonna do it in glue stick...
...Times puzzle under Shortz' aegis has some famous fans, and Wordplay has tracked down most of them. Stewart, attacking a Tuesday puzzle, says, "I'm so confident, I'm gonna do it in glue stick." Dan Okrent, a former TIME executive who was the New York Times' Public Editor, notes that the best crossword solvers are mathematicians and musicians. (This applies especially to cryptic puzzles, a British refinement of the form that was imported to America when Stephen Sondheim created 40 or so for New York magazine in the early '70s. A few years later the cryptic became a regular...