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Where the Hives are original is in their sense of irony about the performance of rock 'n' roll in the 21st century. They may have large gaps in their musical education, but they're fluent in American pop culture. Kids in Sweden learn English starting in the third grade, but the Almqvist brothers got a head start from Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Saturday Night Live reruns, which aired incessantly on Swedish television. SNL turned out to be a major influence. "They had both music and smart comedy," says Nicholaus. "And sometimes smart comedy is the best way to have...
...warns companies to be wary of too--is people whose numbers exceed the normal curve. These are the applicants who are trying to come across as unusually, perhaps unrealistically, qualified--an effort that can be disastrous and transparent. "I was interviewing one person whose resume claimed he spoke fluent Spanish," Inwald says. "I began talking to him in my more rudimentary Spanish, and even I recognized that he was answering in only the present tense...
Iskandar was a fluent French and Arabic speaker. He was a wine and food enthusiast who loved to travel and recently returned from a vacation in Greece—where Iskandar and his fiance, Nicolette Cavaleros of London, were to be married in July according to the Boston Herald...
...office by 5 a.m., and he didn't take a day off until Thanksgiving. The most senior member of a joint terrorism task force, Williams was in charge of "a couple of thousand leads," some of which pointed to Al Salmi. Together with his partner George Piro, a fluent Arabic speaker, Williams conducted much of a 10-hour interrogation of the pilot. Al Salmi defiantly said there was nothing Williams or the government could do to him. "I told him that I believed that he was lying," Williams said, "and that we would be meeting with the United States Attorney...
Already Adam C. Urato ’91-’92, a physician and pre-med tutor in Cabot House who is fluent in Spanish, has touched base with Guerrero’s doctors from time to time to clarify her concerns...