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...Reading Aparisim Ghosh's brilliantly evocative "Baghdad Diary" [Aug. 28] at the back door of my typically English bungalow on a gently warm late-summer's day was utterly bizarre. From his description of the terrifying descent into Baghdad airport to the final words of his article, I was lost in his powerful rhetoric. Fortunately, we have Ghosh to describe the situation in Baghdad. Otherwise we would have to rely on the ever-optimistic, honeyed official government reports, which would have us believe Iraq will soon be free of anarchy, death and destruction?a claim that has been made since...
...time Academy Award winner is undeniably mis-cast. When I do free association with Swank’s name “femme fatale with a bizarre English accent and a weird rat-like flower in her hair” is not one of the phrases that I generally come up with. She trills lines like “The family’s in Laguuuuuuna!” as if she is playing Katherine Hepburn in a drag show...
...family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars, profs and bishops - careers which might require a top-of-the-range voice. That may explain why I speak a distinctly upmarket version of received pronunciation (RP) - shorthand for the standard English of bbc newsreaders. Which is fine if you want to marry a landowner or work in a top art auction house, but not so much fun if you just want to fade into the background. People make assumptions: men think I'll boss them, employers think...
...team are in China with most of the manufacturing operations. Executives complain of midnight conference calls and perpetual jet lag. "Lenovo is really living in a flat world," says Amelio. Meshing Chinese and American corporate cultures hasn't been easy either. The Chinese are stressed by having to speak English, the company's official language, made harder by rapid-fire talkers like Amelio. "We have to ask him several times to slow down," says He. "He just doesn't stop...
...proved eye-opening to readers. Scores wrote to thank him, many finding sobering contrast between how they lead their lives and how Ghosh, Baghdad citizens and coalition troops must cope during wartime Reading Aparisim Ghosh's brilliantly evocative "Baghdad Diary" [Aug. 28] at the back door of my typically English bungalow on a gently warm late summer's day was utterly bizarre. From his description of the terrifying descent into Baghdad airport to the final words of his article, I was lost in his powerful rhetoric. Fortunately, we have Ghosh to describe the situation in Baghdad. Otherwise we would have...