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...Taught English in Botswana from...
...Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually to the best work of English-language fiction written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe...
...There is something wrong with distributing to the whole Faculty who may or may not come to the meeting confidential and sometimes volatile materials,” said English Professor Elaine Scarry, a member of the Administrative Board Reform Committee, at the Faculty meeting...
Certain girls' names, Jasso points out, survive the Spanish-English crossing better than boys' names, since the a ending (Victoria, Cordelia, Diana, Maria) is popular in both languages, while the o ending for boys' names is not. A Spanish Marco becomes an Anglo Mark; Antonio similarly becomes Anthony, and Teodoro becomes Theodore. "If names exert an influence on their own," Jasso says, "then Hispanic girls will be more likely to assimilate, and to assimilate more quickly than boys...
...Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator with a secondary field in English from Palo Alto, Calif., Shaker recently joined the Polo Club, though she had long been a fan of riding horses. Shaker also served as the Resource Efficiency Program representative for Cabot House and was previously a member of the women’s Heavyweight Crew team...