I'm the only literate person in my family.
Any literate person can research and summarize publicly available information.
No literate person can now pretend that these men were anything but abscesses of cruelty.
This will mean that just about any literate person can become a "published" author.
The short answer, from pretty much every economically literate person in the world, is yes.
But presumably, any literate person -- regardless of the arrangement of their chromosomes -- could arrange the words Hayes, Chamberlain, Russell and Mikan in alphabetical order.
Youssef Rakha, a talented young novelist, told me that there's a special connection when a literate person can read ancient texts in a language that's so close to contemporary writing.
Probably almost every literate person knows that Marx made a famous crack - derived from Hegel - about the first episode in history being tragic and the second time being farcical.
With a large, bald head, and a thick frame, Mr. Minghella had the physical affect of dockworker, but when he opened his mouth, it was clear he was an omnivorously literate person.
Ms. Child, 88, won fame in the early 1960's with cookbooks and television shows based on the premise that, as she once said, "any literate person with a reasonable amount of manual dexterity can concoct praiseworthy French meals".
