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Nervous kids and obscure words are not the stuff of big-time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
...until spring 2005, no female final club had a house, but the Bee Club leased space in the Square last year...
...very well have been the only one at your high school with a working knowledge of fine wines, or the only one who said you wanted to be an investment banker when you grew up, or even the only one to have ever attended the national spelling bee, but here at Harvard you’re in far more like-minded company, whatever your mind might be like...
Directed by Doug AtchisonLions Gate Films4 starsWhat does every kid dream about? Scoring the final goal in a soccer game? Getting an Xbox for Christmas? Well, after seeing “Akeelah and the Bee,” it will undoubtedly be winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.Akeelah (Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion”), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper...
After turns as Othello, Ike Turner and The Matrix's Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne exudes a calmer vibe as a spelling tutor in Akeelah and the Bee...