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Certain accents are widespread. Posh Queen’s English of the Eton or Cambridge variety is so familiar as to sound humdrum. Such accents, however, are all linked by a common denominator: a decidedly non-plebian heritage. By contrast, the Boston accent has a distinctly blue-collar identity...
...standing ovation. The actual guest of honor was a Christian missionary accused under Australia's anti--religious vilification laws of making anti-Muslim statements. (He appealed, and the case was sent back to trial court.) But Akinola, wearing a gray Western suit over his usual purple shirt, clerical collar and 3-in. wooden cross, was the man most of the religiously conservative attendees had come to see. In cadences that approached preaching, he commended the missionary for what Akinola called his faith and courage at a crucial moment for the Gospel. He cited challenges to Christianity in Australia, Africa...
More than half of those jobs were on the Virginia side of the Potomac, the bulk of them white-collar stuff like management consulting, computer services and scientific research. The epicenter of the boom has been Fairfax County, just east of Loudoun and a notch below it on the income list. Fairfax is home to a million people and 600,000 jobs. It is ethnically and racially diverse. It has excellent public schools. Its unemployment rate is just...
With a name like “The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show,” you might be tempted to pass off Comedy Central’s new program as just another redneck comedy show, following in the steps of “Blue Collar TV.” The duo behind the show, David “Gruber” Allen and David Koechner, say that would be a mistake. The program features sketch comedy intertwined with onstage banter between Koechner’s “T-Bones” and Gruber?...
Harvard will come out determined to show it can play without departed seven-footer Brian Cusworth, and that it’s not going to lay down and die without the big man, and will hang another collar on the Lions. The Crimson by four...