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...Christmas morning, Monsignor Pios Cacha led a service in which Arabic hymns mingled with long, chanted prayers in Aramaic, and even a few tunes in English from the young mixed gender choir. "We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas," they sang to the accompaniment of a keyboard. As Cacha stood at the altar, his traditional sermon about Jesus and Bethlehem also mixed with pragmatic appeals for peace and reconstruction...
...America's first multi-millionaire, penned the diary while he was studying classics at Cambridge in the 1840s. Now, for the first time in more than a century, his work is being republished in An American In Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in An English University." His rich account of Cambridge's devil-may-care student life is part memoir, part instructional guide: it offers tips on navigating the city's twisting streets and preparing for the university's notoriously difficult exams, while also divulging how students weaseled their way out of them. (See TIME...
...fascinating insight into how Europeans - sometimes rightly, but often wrongly - see each other. In a strange triangulation, English commentators relied on canned German stereotypes to have fun with typical French reactions. There was just one problem: the French reactions just didn't happen. "In consideration of the fact that German cuisine is regarded as a lethal weapon in most parts of France, this personnel decision is a sensation," The Daily Mail quoted conservative German daily Die Welt amidst a smorgasbord of clichés. "It would be in the same dimension as if tomorrow Mercedes calmly announced the new boss...
England came up with the idea of impeachment; in medieval times, any English subject or politician could initiate impeachment charges in Parliament. But by the fourteenth century, Parliament decided to limit the privilege to its own members. Four hundred years later, in the newly independent United States of America, Constitutional Convention delegates debated over how to include the process in the Constitution. In England, Parliament tended to impeach politicians it didn't like, regardless of offense - but the Constitution's creators didn't like this, and decided to limit impeachment only to crimes of treason and bribery. Virginia convention delegate...
...March 2008, Duncan decreed that although No Child Left Behind mandated students whose first language is not English take the same standardized tests as others, the scores for these bilingual students would not determine whether they would be allowed to move on to the next grade level. He justified his decision by saying that the federal rule would unfairly punish schools with bilingual students...