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...conflict between recent Ecuadorian immigrants and longtime residents of Danbury, Conn., over the raucous volleyball games the Ecuadorians enjoy [Aug. 1]. The Danbury people who complain about the large games should be ashamed. Immigrants in the U.S. seem to be expected to leave their culture, color and accent behind. Long ago France gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty, which is inscribed GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Attitudes have changed so much since her arrival, perhaps it's time to return the Lady with the Lamp to France...
...just recorded Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with the London Philharmonic--but she also champions living American composers like Philip Glass. She can even be heard, on occasion, to utter the phrase way cool. "There's this whole archetypal image of what a conductor is, this inaccessible person with an accent and an ascot," Alsop says. "This is the age of collaboration rather than autocracy...
...Filipino Linguists In "Real Returns," TIME's William Green described his experiences as an investor in a small company that operates an English-speaking customer-service telephone call center in Manila [July 4]. Green was surprised by the employees' ability to approximate an American accent after taking only a short "accent neutralization" course. It should not have startled him, since the phone agents were all college graduates who lack opportunities to demonstrate their competencies. We Filipinos have an innate ability to mimic foreign accents, which might be because most of us are interested in knowing other languages besides...
Despite the title, Alan Harding doesn't have a fuhgeddaboutit accent or specialize in Coney Island hot dogs. Instead he builds each episode around an outlandish problem (e.g., what to do with a quarter-ton of pork) and finds solutions applicable to the home kitchen. The unpretentious restaurateur runs his show like a friendly neighborhood hangout...
...while the governor may be your average hyper-driven American with 22-inch biceps and a ridiculous accent, the rest of Sacramento is firmly rooted in the Bizarro World. The Hollywood-ready wackiness does not come from the Mr. Universe-turned-governor. Instead, it is provided by the legislature, the bureaucrats, and the generally bizarre attitude of California’s two-hours-from-anywhere (including the ocean) center of government...