This book might seem to tell a depressing tale, but it is enlivened by Ms Elliott's use of folklore material and regional writing to shed light on the intricate and (to the outsider) baffling ways of life and thought of the Ulster people as a whole.

ECONOMIST: Irish history

In light of their writing, The Expendables just seems pointless.

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Not every smart phone will do: Apple's iPhone, for example, lacks the ability to cut and paste--a must for even light-duty editing and writing.

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Perhaps a bigger obstacle is French composers' reputation for writing music that is too thin, too light and too much in the head: all tweeter, so to speak, and no woofer.

ECONOMIST: The London Proms

One warning, though: given that her overall narrative suggests that female literary status has been subject to historical ups and downs, one cannot assume women's writing will always be seen in the same light.

ECONOMIST: Women's literature in America

And the figures still show 50-odd per cent of pupils at the age of 11 are not by your own light properly equipped for secondary school in reading, writing and particularly in arithmetic.

BBC: EDUCATION

He is a leading light of Anglophone literature and he's a very strong--he actually retired from writing plays, so he said earlier this year, to dedicate himself purely on political activism.

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And, in fact, there has been some very intelligent writing on how the draconian SOPA legislation will impact the Open Educational Resource movement of which MITx is a leading light.

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The second is really what I was writing about in my previous post, and I still think that something that consumed data in a s super light-weight way could be a really big product but not necessarily for Apple.

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