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McDonald's is hardly the first interest group to challenge the OED's chronicling of unflattering slang. Last year, Britain's Potato Council complained that the definition of couch potato implied that the nutritious tuber was inherently unhealthy, thus driving down business. Instead, the Council campaigned for the term to...
While new restaurants have replaced such old favorites as Elsie’s, the Wurst House, and The Tasty, new is not necessarily better.
Not surprisingly, disenchantment with the nation's political leaders runs deep. Nigeria has been a nominal democracy since 1999. But international monitors have questioned the fairness of the April 21 elections in which outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo was replaced by his favored candidate Umaru Yar'Adua, a previously obscure state...
I refuse to learn Spanish. Should I immigrate to Canada, Australia or New Zealand? -Marjory Dutcher, PHOENIX[Laughs.] I get the gist of the question. It's true that we have, in many places, replaced English with Spanish. And I don't believe bilingual countries work very well. Because we...
Channel 2 on the dial, which had been home to opposition-aligned Radio Caracas Television until Sunday, would have jumped at the chance to show the events. But the reason the students had taken to the streets was precisely to protest the government's forcing RCTV off the airwaves, at...