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...learn all the United Nations languages. He’s fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Persian, and says he speaks Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and American Sign Language “to a lesser degree.” What’s next? Hopefully Swahili. Not surprisingly, his dream job is to work for the UN. His cell phone is programmed in French and Iranian posters cover his walls. Kofi Annan, take note. Blockmate Ekua K. Nkyekyer ’07 relates a story of Terrelonge’s mad language skills. While riding on a bus together, she recalls...
...recount the writer’s upbringing in Limerick, Ireland. Audience member and former co-director of external relations at the GSE, Dottie V. Engler described McCourt as “the kind of guy you could only dream to [be] sitting next to at a bar.” The audience echoed the sentiment, giving him a standing ovation. “A couple of things he said about facing students rang so true that I had tears in my eyes,” Hatsy Hoder, a GSE affiliate, said...
...vacation for everyone, Christmas movies and television shows that everyone is exposed to, and huge sales in stores throughout the nation that are advertised to (you guessed it!) everyone. So rather than just an expression of religious beliefs, Christmas has become a distinctly American tradition. Obviously then, the pipe dream of continued cultural purity surrounding Christmas is one that many would do well to abandon...
...Ella details the genealogical research by which she hopes to uncover the hidden meaning of her dream, her narrative comes to mimetically parallel that of Isabelle...
Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier’s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...