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...computer. And unlike reporters, many people need more than words to express themselves: architects, engineers, graphic designers, artists. Sure, you can "draw" on graphics tablets, but these are no real substitute for pen and paper. Then there's the two-thirds of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet. You can get keyboards in Chinese and Hindi, but speed is a problem if you have to hit several keys to make a single character. Writing is intuitive, natural. But is it the wave of the future...
...contemporary coins, Cleopatra appears masculine and powerful. Slim and serene in sculptures, she is sometimes portrayed as the goddess Isis, the divine, royal mother whose cult she followed. Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip...
...Everything we know about Cleopatra comes from later Roman writers," including Plutarch, says Higgs, "and it's nearly all negative." That "prudish and snobbish" Romans would see Egypt's queen as a barbarian and a seductress is unsurprising, he adds, given that "she had taken away from them both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony." Still, says Higgs, even Cleopatra's critics acknowledged that she had some admirable qualities. Apart from her beauty, she is said to have been a humorous and charming conversationalist. Intelligent and savvy, she was a skilled diplomat who spoke several languages-and was clearly loved...
...should continue living in Gracie Mansion until her apartment is available, Felder made her sound like the interloper "howling like a stuck pig," who would have to be pulled "from the chain of the chandeliers" to remove her. In an attempt to win sympathy and perhaps absolution from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Felder volunteered that Rudy wasn't violating the Sixth Commandment because his treatment for prostate cancer had left him impotent...
...should continue living in Gracie Mansion until her apartment is available, Felder made her sound like the interloper "howling like a stuck pig," who would have to be pulled "from the chain of the chandeliers" to remove her. In an attempt to win sympathy and perhaps absolution from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Felder volunteered that Rudy wasn't violating the Sixth Commandment because his treatment for prostate cancer had left him impotent...