Word: personent
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...that it is the fate of all media to shed their analog past and transubstantiate into pure data. Newspapers are becoming websites, photos are becoming JPEGs, and songs are becoming MP3s. But what does this great digital awakening mean for the book? To find out, I--as the only person in the U.S. who has never read Khaled Hosseini--downloaded his novel onto a Sony Reader. Kite Runner, meet Blade Runner...
...were frequently greeted by ‘Shalom!’ in the street in Nablus and Balata—maybe a surprise to outsiders who may believe the Palestinian people indoctrinated and hate-filled, but reinforced by the fact that we did not hear a single Palestinian person express hatred or blame towards the Israeli people during our research—just incomprehension and despair. It would be hard for an Israeli citizen to have the honor of experiencing this first hand though, for signs at checkpoints to all towns in the occupied West Bank ban Israeli citizens from...
...closest he has ever come to a personal religious crisis, he recalls, was when he was in college and considering whether to go off on a mission, as his grandfather, father and brother had done. Mitt was deeply in love with Ann, his high school sweetheart and future wife, and couldn't bear to spend more than two years away from her. He says he also felt guilty about the draft deferment he would get for it, when other young men his age were heading for Vietnam. In the end, it was Ann - a convert to Mormonism from having been...
...doing well. Our big issue is making ourselves world-class in education. If China and India are turning out 4 million graduates a year and we're turning out 400,000, it's pretty clear to me that we've got to use the talents of every young person a lot better. A small country must be able to mobilize its talents more effectively...
...shrugged. "It's a good place." He nodded toward the red fabric wall of protest slogans. "A person has a right to express himself. This is a democratic society - much better than in mainland China...