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...entitled to after-school tutoring--at taxpayers' expense--aren't getting it, according to a new government report, and some rural districts offer no tutoring at all. But extra help is on the way. And like a lot of customer service these days, it comes with a distinctly Indian accent. The Bangalore-based TutorVista, which last fall began providing online tutoring to U.S. students in everything from grammar to geometry, last week announced it will provide a year of free tutoring to kids in the 10 poorest rural counties...
...month, when a video of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four July 7 suicide bombers, was released on the eve of the bombings' one-year anniversary. In it, he promises that attacks like the one on London's public transport network that killed 52 would become stronger, his Yorkshire accent a bitter reminder that he and his cohorts were British citizens, three of them born here. Those who knew the July 7 bombers described them as "ordinary" guys who had never caused any trouble before...
...thick check lumberjack shirts or denim, but it is the young girl's outfit that catches the eye. She is nonchalantly wearing a plunging bra under a tiny knitted opera jacket, and around her hips is a sarong made, it appears, out of a doll's handkerchief. By her accent she is from some Nordic land, but you sense the locals wouldn't welcome an outsider's attempt to chat...
BARCELONA—Before leaving for Spain, I brushed up on my Spanish by reviewing the nuances of idiomatic expressions and practicing my accent, hoping for a shot at being mistaken for a local, or at least, a Spanish speaker. My preparation however, fell far short of my goal. To fool the locals here would require learning an entirely different language—Catalán.At first there was no problem: The hospital staff with whom I worked always spoke Castellan—Iberian Spanish—and the patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly...
...alma mater, one day, then donned a Princeton cap the next day and said he was okay with the school. More recently, on a trip to New Hampshire last month, he noted "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent," while attempting to note the growing clout of Indian-Americans in his state...