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...Jenkins taught three 90-minute classes a day, 10 to 15 days a month. There were about 30 students in each class. "They wanted us to teach them American pronunciation," he says, a prospect that seems amusing considering many Americans would have trouble deciphering Jenkins' thick accent. Often the text consisted of translated utterances by Kim Il Sung, who became the North's first leader in 1948, when Korea split into two countries, and remained in power until his death in 1994. The classes studied the guerrilla fighters who took on Japanese soldiers during World War II and discussed...
...report issued last month by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a watchdog agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that Sultan plagiarized text, data and images on the grant application and had additionally tried to falsify the results for one experiment on malaria strains...
...What makes a good translation? For Kamoun, it's being true to the author's voice. Averaging 10 pages a day, over the course of six or seven hours, she works in bed, with just the original text, her computer and her cat, Faustus. Once she finishes a first bulky draft, Kamoun puts it away for a while, then gives it an average of four revisions. While some translators will first read a book from cover to cover to get a sense of the work, Kamoun relies on spontaneity. "If [a book has] been well-received, I will read...
...wistful, erotic novella The Dying Animal, Kamoun even spent six days sitting on the floor of Roth's New York City apartment, typing in French as he paced and read the text aloud. "She wanted to hear the cadences," says Roth, "and I wanted to know whether, at any point, she was at all unsure of my idiom and its precise connotation." When it was done, Kamoun and Roth celebrated over bowls of spaghetti at an Italian restaurant. Neither could muster a word during dinner. "We were exhausted, spent of language," she recalls. Roth and the other writers she translates...
...voted "yes" to the new E.U. Constitution in a party referendum ahead of a national vote next year. Both the left and right have now lined up in favor of the treaty, making French approval likely and boosting its chances Europe-wide. All 25 E.U. nations must endorse the text...