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DIED. KENZO TANGE, 91, Japan's most influential postwar architect, who led the rebuilding of Hiroshima with his peace-park design in 1949; in Tokyo. A winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he helped re-elevate his country to the world stage with his twin comma-shaped sports arenas for Tokyo's 1964 Olympics...
...tell you Mayonnaise, but on Aug. 1, 2005, the authorized spelling is set to become Majonäse. On the same day, Frischgebacken (freshly baked) will turn into frisch gebacken, as countless delightful German compound words are broken up by official decree. Other new rules will govern where a comma belongs in a sentence, and use of the good old-fashioned ?, which will only follow long vowels and diphthongs, while ss will follow short vowels; so it's ich wei? (I know) but ich wusste (I knew). Alles klar? Not really. When Time asked Steffen Reiche, the Education Minister...
...aside concerns about such minor matters as sex, money and career. Lynne Truss is here to help you with the really important issues--such as the proper placement of apostrophes, the six uses of the comma and the preservation of the hyphen. Truss, a British journalist and novelist, is a self-proclaimed stickler for punctuation. Not for its own sake, mind you, but because, as she writes in Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Gotham Books; 209 pages), "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning...
...proposal for Harvard College Courses, the broad and ill-defined replacement for the Core put forth in last month’s report on the curricular review, seemed merely incompetent. But administrators were evidently motivated by another, less-than-savory rationale, buried deep within the report in a comma-delineated clause about the Harvard College Courses: “They should develop distinctive course materials for use in, and potentially beyond, Harvard College” (emphasis added). The great secret that explains these new classes, confirmed for me by several people connected to the review, is that administrators indeed hope...
...every morning. But I think what will be hardest when my time at The Crimson expires on January 25 is that there won’t be a community of 300 people depending on me to teach the next generation of reporters about libel, rat out that last serial comma from FM or make a clean early morning get-away from Charles River Printing...