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Many people in France talk of the "Asterix syndrome" and the "village gaulois" (Gallic village), the idea that tiny, embattled France needs to defend itself against the encroaching cultural influences of the U.S., or the English language, or both. Usually used pejoratively, the terms indicate an inward, backward-looking way of seeing the world. The sentiment is also tied up with the French obsession with its cultural exception, the various rules and regulations designed to protect the French way of life from outside forces: French singers must sing in French, English words are banned from advertising, half...
...this is Harvard, so even the protests are a little, well, nerdier. These students paid attention in English class, and their wordsmithing prowess was clear in their slogans...
...Smith, who is from Durham, England, it had been an up-and-down season. He had been banned from playing the first six games of his rookie season because the NCAA deemed him “partially professional” due to time spent playing on an English club. After the frustration of having to sit out the start of his season, Smith saw playing time in each of the remaining 11 games, starting eight...
...most famous man who searched for the army was László Almásy, a Hungarian aristocrat who, in his wanderings, claimed to find the mythical oasis of Zerzura - "the oasis of little birds" - and became the subject of Michael Ondaatje's best-selling novel, The English Patient. (Read about Egypt's pyramids in danger...
...executive M.B.A. from Emory University. Soon after 9/11, he was laid off from his marketing job at telecommunications-equipment maker Nortel Networks in Atlanta. He decided to reinvent himself by moving to China, a country he had visited with classmates while at Emory. Since 2002, he has taught English and worked as a business consultant in Shenzhen, a 14 million-strong metropolis in southern China, just across the border from Hong Kong. (See pictures of Barack Obama in Asia...