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...summer of Justice, no less, the Parisian duo whose “D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America at the time of my departure. This was the land of baguettes and Bizet, and I, a professed Francophile, was gagging down processed pastry and watching similarly packaged English-language videos by Kelly Rowland and Nelly Furtado on the lobby’s television. C’est affreux, n’est-ce pas?Hours later, I was asking a French friend about Justice, and I got a blank stare. Hadn’t heard of them...
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...you’re ever in Luxembourg and can’t find anyone that speaks English, just say, “Mäin Loftkësseboot ass voller Éilen...
Eggers, who will be giving a reading at the concert, catapulted into the ranks of hipster icons after the 2000 publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand called the part-memoir, part-novel the “MTV” version of “The Catcher and the Rye” in an article in The New Yorker...
...would be making it that much harder for an educated, moderate Iraqi middle class to reconstitute itself. How would Iraq "unleash the talent of its people and be an anchor of stability in the region," as Bush promised, if its doctors were practicing medicine in Detroit and its English speakers were in Langley, Va., translating Arab press reports...