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...ever talk about non-tennis things with Roger Federer? Are you friends? -Rosario Pacheco, Malaga, Spain I suppose yes. We have a good relationship, we're friends. Although my English isn't fantastic, we certainly talk in the locker room...
...Roman Catholic teachings and would like to escape back to a time when those in the pew had no clue [Aug. 6]. The allure of Mass is not in language but in the celebration itself. Cullen should savor the fact that she can understand what is being said in English and disagree with it. The church should maintain the common language of the people, because it is their faith that makes the church more of a community than an institution. Josh Steger, GREEN...
Giselle Barcia '08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Mather House. When she’s not pouring over 20th century multi-generational novels in the bowels of Widener (what she calls “thesis research”) or watching, discussing, and obsessing over “So You Think You Can Dance,” she edits summer postcards for The Crimson...
...selling spears of chilled guava down the street sports a Chelsea football jersey. Everywhere in soccer-mad Bangkok, in fact, people wear garments proclaiming their affiliation with one or another English Premier League team. But one jersey you're unlikely to spot? That of Manchester City. It's not because City has struggled, unsuccessfully, for three decades now to emerge from the shadow of its more moneyed crosstown rival, Manchester United. Even Birmingham's lackluster Aston Villa, after all, maintains a dogged fan base in Thailand's capital. No, the reason Manchester City is taboo in Bangkok is because...
...approaches his 60th year, something is changing in Murakami's heart. His status as a truly global writer is assured - over 100,000 copies of the English version of his most recent novel, After Dark, have been printed since its release in May - but with the world conquered, and precocious undergraduates from Sydney to San Francisco at his feet, the postmodernist master dismisses the foreign adulation with a tired hand, and finds himself returning to the world of his parents and his birth. Despite the title - and a cameo appearance by Colonel Sanders of KFC fame - 2002's Kafka...