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...funnier in person than he is in his written fiction,” Wood says. “T.S. Eliot was the same way—some of his personal verse is rather psychotic, but when it comes to writing in public verse, he worked up to a [formalized] proper mode of voice...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graham Greene Centennial Celebrated | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...lined up a vertical mark with predetermined stars to provide proper heading ... As Faith 7 blasted into the atmosphere, friction set up a curtain of ionization that knocked out communications ... [The astronaut] scored his bull's-eye landing off the ... carrier Kearsarge ... He was safe?he had done what his equipment could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...play, the title character defies her nation’s laws to give her brother—an alleged traitor—proper burial rights. As a result, the people of Thebes acquiesce to her execution...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heaney’s Poetry Makes Past Present | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...thinking politicians. You have a much higher stake in the long term effects of current policies than the middle-aged or older voters who dominate the polls. As a result of your future interest in, for example, the environment and social security, you may think very differently about the proper responses to these issues. However, accountability for the long-term may be evaded unless young people choose to vote...

Author: By Naomi M. Ages, Lauren S. Kuley, and Leslie V. Pope, S | Title: No Vote, No Voice | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...Sistani tends to express principles that leave the details open to interpretation. He communicates them before and after sunset prayers, when he addresses his followers' 1,001 questions on proper religious observance, social behavior and personal conduct. He engages in a busy written dialogue with his followers by letter and via the Internet. Not long ago, Rifat al-Amin, a university student in Baghdad, wrote the ayatullah to ask whether protests by his followers should take place in narrow streets where they would block traffic. The marja replied that demonstrations should take place in wide squares instead. Al-Amin also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Shadow Ruler | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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