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...political sniping in Washington intensifies, the Bush Administration is struggling to cast dismaying events in a hopeful light. "The more progress we make on the ground," declared the President, "... the more desperate these killers become." That struck many as an Orwellian way to measure U.S. success. To keep the accent on the positive, the Coalition Provisional Authority, led by proconsul Paul Bremer, is opening a media center in Baghdad similar to the one set up in Qatar during major combat operations. "We have a story to tell," says a senior official. Part of the story last week was a fresh...
...made these two movies at the same time. You never blurted out your wicked good Boston accent in London by mistake...
...thing I was the most relieved about was that accent. It's very hard, particularly [the Dorchester neighborhood], which is different from the Kennedyesque Boston accent...
...with this anthropologist. As her large eyes focus on her listener, McHardy speaks slowly and precisely of what Shambhala Buddhism, her lineage, has taught her about itself. “It is about building a secular society, a non-sectarian one,” McHardy says in her British accent. “It is not presented as a belief system.” If Buddhism is not a belief system, then being Buddhist is not mutually exclusive with other religions, allowing Buddhist ethics to “unify the world, unify people beyond religious persuasions,” says...
Davis' uncanny impersonations and his fancy footwork are almost too perfect a metaphor for a man who was so desperate to fit in he affected an English accent whenever he was in London. Haygood's Sammy is a hall of mirrors with nothing behind them. You can't quite like him--there's not enough of him there to like--but you can't look away. The book ends with a heart-stopping photo of Sammy at age 5, blacked up, ready for his killer impression, his Al Jolson: a black kid impersonating a white guy in blackface...