Cursive is dead</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Cursive is dead"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Cursive,is,dead"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">11-09-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Cursive is dead</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Massachusetts, USA (Courant): Journalists and academics have been decrying the decline of cursive for at least a decade, but the line has been crossed: Cursive is dead. Should we mourn its passing? Indeed we should, for at its best it approached a true cultural art form. That culture, of many drafts, of wads of paper flying at the trashcan, of the messiness of hand and ink, has passed with hardly a final signature. To be sure, the remnants remain here and there, yet the occasional handwritten note is but an echo. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentarycursive0909.artsep09,0,4924709.story" target="blank">www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentarycursive0909.artsep09,0,4924709.story</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show