He listens closely, Laura Hunt style, as she reads him drafts over the phone.
Wormwood (the fabulous Gabriel Ebert and Lesli Margherita), who ostracize her, because she reads books.
Maybe he or she reads one story in HBR, or sees something on a blog.
She reads the papers, surfs the Net, and then often does her own makeup.
She reads straight through until sunrise and finishes the entire book, 652 pages, in less than six hours, she says.
In her spare time, she reads everything, rants about politics, Zumba dances, skis, plays tennis, travels, and plays with her grandchild, Maya.
She tells them how Anwar prays alone on the cement floor of his cell, and she reads messages written by him from jail calling for reformasi.
She reads a sobering piece from the point of view of Charles Chapman, a man who was wrongly accused of rape and subsequently held in prison for years.
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Late in her twenties she starts getting serious about her leadership potential and she reads Leadership Presence, The Prince, Primal Leadership, Drive, and Leadership and Self Deception.
And then she reads them on her iPad.
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Morrison, an early endorser of Amazon.com's Kindle reading device and the author of prize winners including "Song of Solomon, " said she's not a Luddite and does keep up with the Internet, enough so that she much prefers the nonfiction she reads on blogs to fiction.
Not having one of her own, she plays in the back of a music store so they go there and he teaches her a song he's just written, first playing the chords for her, then singing as she reads along with the lyrics that he's placed on the piano.
She reads fashion magazines for make-up tips and how to keep slim with the right vegetable juices, listens to a digital music player overflowing with the latest Hong Kong Cantopop songs, and recently watched dubbed Korean soap operas on a PC with her girlfriends at her factory dorm munching snacks and drinking beer.
When one views a web page or Twitter post, what she actually reads is not the original material, but what her computer says the page or tweet is supposed to look like, after the data to form it is transmitted through many routers, servers, and other network devices along the path from the its original source.
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Ms. Friedman, who said she now often reads on her Kindle, left HarperCollins in 2008.
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And what she wrote there, in many ways, reads most profoundly today.
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"Be the reason she has hope, " one of the ads reads.
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But she wants to make sure the U.S. military reads her report.
Sporting a white baseball cap that that reads, "100% American Citizen, " Schwartz says she believes that SB 1070 came about because law enforcement in Phoenix was fed up over not being able to ask suspects about their immigration status.
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