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Cursive started to lose its clout back in the 1920s, when educators theorized that because children learned to read by looking at books printed in manuscript rather than cursive, they should learn to write the same way. By World War II, manuscript, or print writing, was in standard use across the U.S. Today schoolchildren typically learn print in kindergarten, cursive in third grade. But they don't master either one. Over the decades, daily handwriting lessons have decreased from an average of 30 minutes...
...Turkey - now the home of the scholar Kashgari's original manuscript - the Uighurs' plight strikes an emotional chord. And for most outsiders, dusty, remote Kashgar still holds a powerful romantic mystique. Enduring beside billowing sands and beneath glacial peaks, it has charmed and thrilled travelers from Marco Polo to the modern backpacker clutching a Lonely Planet guide. Its knife smiths and livestock bazaars drip with exoticism, exuding a living history at the edge of the world. But as Chinese authorities begin to smash Kashgar's ancient heart, its fabled allure may end up as just that - a fable...
...hounded his own musician brother for being less successful, had stolen Tetro's dancer girlfriend and taken her as his second wife. Bennie discovers an unfinished play of Tetro's, written in code, about two generations of animosities and betrayals. Bennie, who has long idolized Tetro, takes the manuscript, writes an ending and has it staged in a local arts pageant. That sends skeletons dancing out of the family closet for the therapeutic finale...
...November 2006 the Archives launched Operation Historic Protector, sending investigators to manuscript shows with pamphlets on how to spot a stolen document. Perhaps their next step should be teaching them how to prevent stolen hard drives...
...confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House’s Old Library—will show in the New College Theatre through Sunday, and it makes significant changes to the Bard’s original manuscript. “We are judging Shakespeare in a way that Shakespeare isn’t judged,” Vartikar says. “[Shakespeare] is almost a religion. It’s almost blasphemous to say that this is written poorly, and we’re going to cut it out, and we?...