Word: culturese
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Columbia University named Bollinger as its president in October of that same year. And the controversy on Columbia’s campus surrounding allegations of anti-Semitic sentiment in the university’s Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures department could have dimmed any Harvard hopes that Bollinger...
There are two addictionshere: That of the Mexicans to the U.S. dollar and that of the Americans to cheap labor. In addition, it plainly doesn't matter how long we Mexicans have lived in the U.S. We struggle and maneuver between two languages and two cultures and settle somewhere...
Rather, Appiah’s subject is the citizen (“polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty...
Yet neither Bhutan nor Nepal were ever quite so transparent as outsiders liked to suppose. Kathmandu might have boasted an Old Etonian King, the finest apple pies this side of Iowa and all the mongrel props of what could be called Peace Corps imperialism, but it is still technically illegal...
Grades in Foreign Cultures 90, “Urban Culture in Another Zion,” were not uploaded until Wednesday, and it was soon discovered that some students had received the wrong grades.