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WATCH OUT, CNN? On July 2, Iran launched Press TV, an international satellite-news channel in English. The station will present newscasts--with an Iranian spin, no doubt--and reports from its 26 correspondents in cities like Beirut and Gaza City as well as New York, Washington and London. Newcomers to the 24-hour English-language news market since 2005 include Russia Today, France 24 and al-Jazeera International...
...French friends that a lot of Americans actually hate George Bush, but my ardent desire to defend the U.S. against all slights is waning by the day. I feel embarrassed when my accent betrays me as an American, and defiantly continue to speak French even when addressed in English. If I had a girlfriend, I would make out with her unabashedly in public. And I smoke cigarettes at crowded cafés to the dire annoyance of the American family beside me, responding to their complaints with a snippety: “C’est la France...
...David L. Golding ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Dunster House. On the Fourth of July he witnessed the whole of McLean, Virginia and its surroundings, take shape and solidity, spring into being, town and gardens alike, from his bottle of Heineken...
...Many cultural idiosyncrasies are amusing. There is a veritable passion for public display of affection: if there’s a couple—in a theater, on the subway, at a Festa Junina—they are probably making out. There is a curious love for English words and phrases: malls are called “shoppings” and American music dominates pop radio. Asking for directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject...
Grace Tiao ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history of science and English and American literature and language concentrator in Currier House. This summer she is performing the endlessly and inexcusably self-indulgent exercise of interning for a literary magazine...