Word: letterer
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...them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like the reality." After murderous factional violence broke out among the rebels, he returned to Rangoon, where he continued performing and drawing. In 1998, a fellow former dissident happened to mention his name in a letter intercepted by authorities, and Htein Lin was hauled off by the secret police...
...monkeys, given time and typewriters, will almost surely compose the works of William Shakespeare. Rather than hold to the comforts of that theory, in 2003, researchers put six Sulawesi crested macaques to the test for a month. They turned out just five pages of text, largely filled with the letter...
...This degree of anonymous strife and petulance would certainly threaten any great novel’s composition: Imagine if Melville and Hawthorne had been sniping at one another out in antebellum Western Massachusetts, instead of spending spring days together. There might be no Moby Dick, no Scarlet Letter. High-school reading lists would, frankly, become much more tolerable...
...Hajj, and maybe that’s the learning you come out with,” Khwaja said. “Once you think a Muslim European is good, then maybe all Europeans are, too. A famous example of this broader learning may have been Malcolm X and his letter from Hajj, [in which] he attributes rethinking his views on race to performing the Hajj.” —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...known on Fox News—is also much cheaper than its American analogue. In 2006, Americans spent 15.3 percent of their GDP on health care, whereas Canadians spent 9.8 percent. In fact, the quintessential American company, General Motors, signed a letter declaring that “it is vitally important that the publicly funded health care system be preserved and renewed” in Canada. Because of the effective, socialistic health care system in place, a multinational corporation—Toyota—opted to construct a new plant in Ontario in 2005 despite being wooed by several southern...