Word: english
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Rooney said he has always had a great love and admiration for the power of the English language. From his days as a student at Alton Academy in Albany, N. Y., where he won awards for his writing, to his time at Colgate, where he was the editor of their literary magazine, he has always wanted to be a writer...
...Reverend Jacksy, Jacksy, what's his name has been rabble rousing in Palm Beach. You know, Florida is making a name for itself for being crooked. It is. Their police officers aren't the best. They're real rednecks, the police. I resent that they don't speak more English down here. I think it should be English first. But who am I, anyway?" I was starting to think that those Buchanan votes may not have been a mistake, after...
...flight Indian techies and entrepreneurs with minimal effort to feed its hungry high-tech sector. But the Internet has begun to sneak through the barriers India erected against the outside world. Now the largest national pool of engineering talent in the developing world, a good proportion of which speaks English, is able to set up shop at home. Those engineers' underemployed sisters and cousins have proved willing to work cheaply at a new crop of labor-intensive jobs made possible by the distance-bridging technology of the Net. "Finally, India has something to show to the world," says Dewang Mehta...
...Tang Mountain, where according to legend - his - he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew: by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds, and they all came asking for autographs and pictures," says Diggs, who, under the pseudonym RZA, is the leader of rap's Wu-Tang Clan. "That's how it goes in China; they may not sell our records in Beijing, but kids in the remote areas...
Instead, the 6'3 sophomore wide receiver, who hails from Virginia, was born and bred a soccer nut. He had the pedigree: his British mother's father had been a star for English Premier League powerhouse Manchester United. So Morris focused on soccer for most of his youth...