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...ground with Russia while conceding nothing to its neo-imperial ambitions - these are challenges that would daunt any politician. A keen runner and cyclist, Rasmussen has been known to invite Facebook friends (he has 34,636 of them) to exercise with him. He has remade his Facebook page in English, and says he wants to use it to give NATO a human face. There's nothing wrong with that. But his new job requires him to do a lot more than be friendly and accessible. To make sure NATO survives another 60 years, Rasmussen will have to get tough...
...course will offer students the opportunity to achieve a degree of focus that is simply not possible in a once-weekly class,” Kuzmick wrote in an e-mail. Cross said that the school has previous experience working with intensive classes, such as the four week English-language courses the school has offered in January and early February during recent years. College officials announced last April that the College would not be offering programming for undergrads this upcoming January, and students hoping to stay on campus during January must submit an application before Oct. 15. Interim Dean...
...memorized the questions in Hindi, and asked them to say yes or no,” she said. “I had a translator, but she didn’t speak English...
Jain also worked with children living in the slums to teach them English. Although many of the students took English classes in free, government-run schools, Jain said that many could not even say, “Hello, my name is?...
...constant training of new staff and a dissolution of any semblance of team cohesion. At one point, 18 guards were not at their posts, requiring embassy personnel to be redeployed to fill critical gaps. The State Department said it docked the company $2.4 million for this. The poor English skills of many of the Gurkhas required cross-cultural pantomiming. (Read "A Return Visit to Kabul: Is Time Running...