- Did they jump or were they pushed? Ottakar's in turmoil . . .
One of Britain’s largest bookselling chains, Ottakar’s, “the bookshop chain named after a Tintin adventure about a palace coup, has conducted its own purge of senior executives,” reports Harry Wallop… Read more »
- Reading Panel used Cliff's Notes, says insider . . .
A former member of the National Reading Panel—the committee whose conclusions “helped to shape the Bush administration’s controversial No Child Left Behind program”—says “the scientific research backing federal reading education… Read more »
- South Dakota library fights for Cuban prisoners . . .
Showing that “one person can begin to strike back at a dictator,” Nat Hentoff, in his Village Voice column, describes the efforts of the Vermillion Public Library in Vermillion, South… Read more »
- Fears that unemployed Ashcroft would slip back into dereliction averted. . .
Since he retired from office last month, former Attorney General John Ashcroft has been vague about his plans. “But sources close to Ashcroft say that he has his eye on… Read more »
- Watching TV about books . . .
A CBC program about books, Canada Reads, is termed “an annual book brawl” in this Christian Science Monitor report about the program, now in its fourth year, that “features five… Read more »
- Church: Not what it used to be . . .
Writer Charl van Wyk says he was sitting in church one day when “armed terrorists” burst in and used grenades and automatic weapons to attack worshippers, but that luckily, he… Read more »
- Jesus Christ, yukster . . .
“Theological scholars” gathered in Italy say the Bible is “not a book known for its comedic value” but it does contain “a joke or two,” says a Guardian article by… Read more »
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