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...seems like an ingenious solution,” English professor Louis Menand wrote in an e-mail today. Menand has authored a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on late 19th-century American intellectuals. “But I think we’re meant [by James] to project our own idea onto that deliberate opacity...
...Outside of academics, another popular method of international experience among undergraduates is participation in programs that teach English as a second or other language (TESOL). WorldTeach, for instance, is a Harvard-based NGO of high repute that sends student teachers to developing nations. Many other similar programs have arisen, especially in Asia where the demand for English is particularly high. Such international opportunities, however, fail to consider the broader implications of global language politics. Selma Sonntag articulates the complexities of language policy, describing the global hegemony and “stampede towards English” around the world?...
...opens in December. The British men's fashion designer and tailor - he calls himself a "bespoke couturier" - opened his first small outlet on the street in 1993. Though his flashy personal style seem at odds with the Row's more discreet, clubby image, Boateng is a champion of classic English tailoring and the street on which it was born...
...second TV ad to properly explain the need." Instead, Shaklee's 750,000 members and distributors go into people's homes, talk about the toxic chemicals in regular cleaners and demonstrate how to use Shaklee's nontoxic, superconcentrated (using less packaging) products?in either Spanish or English. "Their selling model is to work on environmental education at the same time," says Yale's Esty. "It really is taking the whole commitment to reducing chemical exposure to a higher level...
...Following the war, the study of Russia was a wide-open, exciting field and there were few American experts at the time,” Pipes said in an interview with The Crimson. Wisse became interested in Yiddish literature while attending graduate school in 1960. Wisse, who was studing English literature at the time, said she “decided it would be a terrific challenge to open up a new field in Yiddish literature.” “Yiddish was the language of my home,” she added. Julia I. Bertelsmann...