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...west. But insurgents had watched the troops as they scouted locations, and a sick comedy of explosions unfolded. Soldiers would eye a building and develop plans to occupy it, only to see it bombed shortly after they had visited it. At some point, someone graffitied a misspelled insult in English to the U.S. President on one of the bullet-pocked walls of the intersection, writing boosh dog in tall black letters...
Whipping out an unwieldy pocket dictionary midconversation is often embarrassing, but in a place as linguistically complex as China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching in English or in Chinese--by romanized spelling or character. The software also includes a flash-card program, so you can learn new words while you're stuck in Beijing traffic...
...Nazi Literature,” originally published in 1996, is the book that first established Bolaño as an important voice in Latin American literature, but Chris Andrews’ new translation arrives at the apex of Bolaño’s posthumous acclaim in the English-speaking world. The title of a 2007 New York Review of Books article says it all: “The Great Bolaño.” Yet it is here, away from the weight and reverence surrounding Bolaño’s best-known work, that his central concerns?...
...Although English was his third language—he picked up French and Spanish early in his continent-hopping cosmopolitan childhood—he was renowned for his erudite, highly refined, and idiosyncratic prose, often ridiculed by detractors as “sesquipedalian.” The son of an oil-baron millionaire, he attended posh private schools in Paris, London, and New York, and graduated from Yale a talented and ambitious young writer...
David L. Golding ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Dunster House...