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...Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English). The museum's guidebook is dense and difficult to use, but one presses on regardless, spellbound by the archaeological wealth on show...
...least 50 movies named Django. The most recent, Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, which played to rapt crowds at the recent Venice and Toronto film festivals but has no American distributor, is a wildly imaginative pastiche in which all the Japanese actors read their lines in phonetic English. It proves that the western can be a robust form of entertainment, just not in the land of its birth...
...unemployed in that war-battered wedge of Palestine is by some counts 70% of the adult population. Mohammad Naja, a management consultant who runs the foundation's program there, says university students "learn theory, not practical application." To address this gap, foundation students undergo a crash course in business English, then a mini-M.B.A. boot camp devised by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business that places them in real-life business situations in which, for instance, accounting graduates perform simulated audits...
...educated, saw him almost as a son and worried about what would happen to him after his own death. The Barber story is narrated by a self-styled philanthropist who wishes that "all ebony personages" be resettled in Africa or the West Indies - but only because the English air "soon reduces these creatures to a state of childish helplessness," bringing the whole country down...
...think students appreciate the chance to talk to a real person about their questions and concerns.” Palmer Rampell ’10, however, said he did not find the Concentration Fair as helpful as he had hoped. Trying to decide between East Asian Studies, Philosophy, and English before the end-of-semester deadline, Rampell had come to the fair to learn more about his options. “I thought that instead of telling us about the requirements of each concentration, the professors would share their passions for the subject,” Rampell said...