To read the above passage in isolation is to perhaps glean from it uncertainty on the part of Fellowes about the good or bad of disruptive economic change, but to read the novel in full is to see that Fellowes sides with Schumpeter.

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Then I went back to the Kindle 2 and read the wasp passage again.

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In South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai read a passage about the link between water and education, followed by a seafront performance by musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

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As part of the CNN iReport cultural census, which examines some of the more intangible characteristics that define the American population, we asked people around the country to read a standard passage aloud so we could evaluate their regional accent.

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Read in this context, Nemesis and The Passage have a great deal in common.

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As we drove through the early morning streets, with hundreds of sleeping bodies lined up on the pavements as if for burial, I recalled the other passage from The Four Quartets that I love and always re-read.

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Agent Corey Walsh read passage after passage from emails and text messages between Officer Gilberto Valle and a man the government said used Moody Blues as a screen name and MeatMarketMan as an email address.

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Only a 14-year-old sensibility could read this passage when Miss Steele first encounters Christian without laughing at the witlessness of the words.

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She would pick one up, planning to read that one special passage, and find herself unable to stop until the whole thing was redigested.

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