"It's astounding to read back then the kind of involvement the board had in those decisions," Ms. Haws said.
By any measure, we have an astounding surplus of reading matter.
This was an astounding constitutional reading, or misreading, as original as Citizens United, and as idiosyncratic as the reasoning in Bush v. Gore, which found a conclusive principle designed to be instantly discarded — or, for that matter, as the readiness among the court's right wing to overturn a health-care law passed by a supermajority of the legislature over a typo.
This was an astounding constitutional reading, or misreading, as original as Citizens United, and as idiosyncratic as the reasoning in Bush v. Gore, which found a conclusive principle designed to be instantly discarded or, for that matter, as the readiness among the court's right wing to overturn a health-care law passed by a supermajority of the legislature over a typo.
Michael Sala is regional winner for the Pacific, with The Last Thread Nayomi Munaweera Wave: A Memoir of Life after the Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala It's not often that we are taken on a journey into the true heart of grief and this was my experience reading this astounding memoir.
How is that? A. The most astounding thing I read in my research is about S, who is a Russian, in the 20's, who was discovered to essentially have a perfect memory and could remember everything but in fact couldn't forget anything.
With the tsunami of e-books where traditional and self-published writers are beefing up reading choices to astounding levels, the book business has become a competing stew of infinite taste sensations that are offered up increasingly sliced and diced, and composed for an increasing segmented reading public.
"What's astounding is that people, having never come close to reading Greek literature, will hear this once and, in the talkbacks, quote things characters have said.
Skepticism is the business of the day, and it is wise to remember this next time you read an astounding discovery claimed in the press.
What happened was astounding: they learned to read and spell from their own stories.
