A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

