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A Brother Fights for His Sister's Release from Prison in Emotional Trailer for 'The Sentence'

First-time filmmaker Rudy Valdez got extremely personal for his debut documentary, The Sentence. Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
ABA Journal

How to start a sentence

As professional rhetoricians, readers of this column should know what the most important part of a sentence is: the end. Many writers mistakenly think it’s the beginning: They begin a ...