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...farm egg, the apotheosis of bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches. The local leaf salad, lightly dressed with perfectly toasted walnuts and plump quarters of dried fig strewn throughout, would make a lovely, light supper. The “R. House Burger,” uniquely served on a griddled English muffin, is mean enough and only $10. The chilled lobster pot (which the waiter described as a “mini-cauldron”), abrasively seasoned and lacking in conceptual unity, left something to be desired, as did the hanger steak and pizzas. The entrées are, at best...
...need? It's called a TCAF interview, for some reason." Ellis, a young man well acquainted with the uses of, and need for, irony when dealing with the command structure, raised an eyebrow and smiled. Later, I looked it up. A TCAF is a Tactical Conflict Assessment Framework - in English, an interview script. "Anyway, we've been asking the TCAF questions for months now. People look at us and think, 'Why do you keep asking the same questions and not doing anything? You must be one stupid bunch of Caucasians,' " Ellis continued, replaying the dialogue. "It's totally insulting: 'What...
...with a real head of steam. He gathered the town elders for a series of shuras and told them about all the goodies that could be headed their way if they agreed to stand with him against the Taliban. By mid-January, he had a written document in English and Pashtu, signed by 12 local elders, promising cooperation and listing the various programs they would soon see. There was the school, of course, and a new medical clinic, and a renovation of the bazaar; there were new police stations, solar-powered wells, paved highways, bridges and irrigation canals...
Nearly one third of all students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are foreign. Each year, there are around 230 incoming international students, and not all of them can speak perfect English. But most of them are requested to lead a section for an undergraduate course by their second or third year in school, according to GSAS Dean for Student Affairs Garth O. McCavana...
...GSAS committee’s recommendations ordered that all non-native English speaking graduate students be screened for competency in reading and speaking English—whether they anticipated teaching undergraduates...