Word: mastering
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...roots, they will be able to decipher unfamiliar words. (By some estimates, 65% of all English words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin--which is simple, logical and consistent--they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English...
...this version is a frustrating experience, chiefly because of the sense that there must be more to it than this. Surely the Nobel Prize cannot have been decided principally on the basis of what appears here. Gao, 60, a playwright as well as a novelist, is regarded as a master of the Chinese language. Perhaps that skill cannot be completely conveyed in a translation, but a better use of English might have helped...
...Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor, begins as Georges Depardieu (cousin of French film star Gerard Depardieu) falls drunkenly asleep in an easy chair in his home. When he wakes up, his house does not belong to him anymore; it belongs instead to an anonymous unseen "Master" and his smug butler Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia, a woman, and Chery #3 is Chuck...
...Judith A. Warnement, who works as a professional librarian for Harvard and, in her spare time, for Kirkland. "7,000 of Kirkland's books are in HOLLIS and more are added every week," Warnement wrote in an e-mail message, noting the House proceeded with the idea with the Master's approval, the permission of the Harvard University Libraries--and a commitment to pay all expenses...
...December 15, and nationwide in early January. Moss is probably best known for her role as Trinity, opposite Keanu Reeves as Neo, in the Wachowski brother's science-fiction blockbuster and cult hit The Matrix (1999). In preparation for playing Trinity, the Canadian-born Moss trained for months to master martial arts before the film began shooting in Australia. In Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, director of last year's Oscar-nominated The Cider House Rules (along with other acclaimed films including What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Moss can be seen as the conservative and strict Caroline Clairmont...