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...Farooqi decided to heed the call. But instead of tackling all 46 volumes of an 1883 text - which he knew nobody would read in its entirety - he decided to tackle a blend of two shorter versions: the 1855 rendering by the Urdu poet Ghalib Lakhnavi, and an 1871 text by the Urdu scholar Abdullah Bilgrami, who took Lakhnavi's edition and added various flourishes and refrains to restore its original bardic character. Even so, Farooqi's translation is almost a thousand pages in total. It was a Herculean labor. "When I looked at the first page," Farooqi confesses, "I thought...
...Secretary of State] James Baker, who I served under in the first Bush Administration. He knew how politics operated both domestically and internationally...
What carried Martin through the years of obscurity that followed was his unshakable sense of vocation. From childhood, he knew he wanted to do comedy and that he could be good at it if he applied himself with a monk's dedication. "I loved to work really hard," he says. One of his happiest memories is practicing card tricks all day at Merlin's. At 15, he had the maturity to realize that a career in comedy wasn't a matter of "I'm funny. Now I'll be funny in public." A disciplined apprenticeship was the prerequisite for overnight...
...exciting," Martin says. "When you're first starting out, you're amazed that something gets a laugh. When you're a success, you know something's gonna get a laugh, it's just how big. You become like a conductor." But soon the audience seized the baton. Fans who knew his routines from the LPs would call out punch lines. He felt as if he were doing his greatest hits. So he retired to movies: more comfortable, less daunting...
...Muhammad, a masters student at HGSE. “I think he did a good job of explaining Sesame Street from an international perspective. It was very current.” The future lies with figuring out the learning behaviors of the Baby Einstein generation, children who never knew a world before Internet, video games, and iPods, Knell said...