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This story features a man named Prince, an actual (Saudi) prince, a billionaire financial legend, a former Treasury Secretary and a British knight with a German accent. That, plus tens of billions of dollars in losses and a financial crunch that Americans may feel for years...
Perhaps I was louder than I intended because a friend of mine on the shuttle laughed as I said goodbye to my mother. He said he’d never heard me talk in such a way, and informed me that my accent made it sound as if my IQ had just plummeted sixty points...
...just plain mad. For starters I’ve never considered my natural accent to be particularly grating. It’s more Southern city-dweller than country-bumpkin...
...those good times and Antoinette’s 252nd birthday, which arrives today, pop open a bottle of Moët, forget about midterms for a few hours, and let the nostalgia wash over you. TAKE A SHOT... 1. Take a shot for every different American or quasi-European accent in the film. “We’re too indie for cultural accuracy!” the film cries. 2. Take a hesitant sip for each of Louis XVI’s awkward attempts at deflowering or even talking to his fifteen-year-old bride. 3. Take...
...there he was onstage next to Clinton the night before Halloween and not exactly dressed as an assassin. He took his shots, judiciously - and more comfortably as the evening wore on. But Obama wasn't nearly as avid or effective as John Edwards, whose soft Southern accent can camouflage an awful lot of aggression. For most of the debate, Clinton was able to deflect the attacks, mostly by professing her fierce and limitless desire to reverse the depredations of the Bush Administration. But just when it was beginning to seem that her evasions were more potent than her opponents' assaults...