Word: frenched
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...scholar at all," she says. "I was at the Middle East Center. I am European and my boss-to-be needed a French speaker. And it was a perfect match...
...French concentrator at Harvard, Gorey spent his undergraduate years in Eliot House after serving in the army during World...
Todd points out that at this particular moment in history, the sciences are the quickest route to the top--the financial top, that is. Yale may foster geniuses in French literature, he says, but shining stars in the humanities are more likely to appear later in life, while math and science whiz kids have the opportunity to make it big and flashy before the age of 30. Although both universities are known for offering excellent overall academics, he says, Stanford's traditional strength in the sciences may mean its success is sometimes more apparent, earlier...
DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel...
...work at Radio Haiti. Two years later, he bought the station. Jean's mission was to harness the power of the airwaves as an instrument of social change. He introduced two ingredients to his country's broadcast stew. He brought Creole, the language of the uneducated population, where only French, the language of the elite, had been heard. And with this came news. Real news. In Jean's words, "People decipher the foreign news and digest it in their own culture. For them, information--this became their life...