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...with good intentions but does not understand how to guide a meaningful discussion—and there is the graduate student who does not understand how to connect with a “lowly” undergraduate. Then there is the foreign TF who doesn’t speak English well, as well as the one who is not familiar with the American education system...
...citizen's right to freedom of worship and freedom of conscience. The civil authorities of every democratic country are duty bound to guarantee the effective freedom of all believers and to permit them to organize freely the life of their religious communities," the Pope said, reading his remarks in English and coughing occasionally at the end of a long day of encounters. He continued: "Religious liberty is a fundamental expression of human liberty and that the active presence of religion in society is a source of progress and enrichment for all. This assumes, of course, that religions do not seek...
...been blamed for--All the King's Men, and done a serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British woman. But Iris is Winslet too. "You, I can tell, are a leading lady," the completely irresistible 90-year...
...receive a prestigious award to study in the United Kingdom. As one of 43 students nationwide to win a Marshall Scholarship, she will join six Harvard Rhodes Scholars in the UK next fall. A literature concentrator in Lowell House, Vasiliauskas will study Criticism and Culture in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. Lyric poetry has been a focus of her time at Harvard, and she used her personal statement in her application to elaborate on the “value of poetry.” “Rational knowledge is insufficient to prevent suffering,” Vasiliauskas...
...Europe and the former Yugoslavia. But during a brief court appearance, Hampel displayed a decidedly low level of proficiency in French, the language of work and industry in Quebec. When the judge asked him if he spoke French, he responded "un peu" - a bit - with an accent other than English...