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...wish good luck to anyone who is learning Mandarin. Even after several years spent mastering the language, you will be able to communicate well with only people from Beijing. Linguistically, China is complicated and diverse, like Europe. Each province has a major dialect and many subdialects. Imagine Dutch, Danish, English, Welsh, Spanish and Catalan, all being spoken in the same country! For communicating outside northern China, Mandarin is functional only if the natives feel they would benefit from speaking with you. Kwok Kian Cheng Singapore...
...thinking they would have more juggling opportunities in the U.S., they moved to New Hampshire, staying with a circus artist they had met while performing in Russia. They came alone: no mother, no father, just the two of them. Vova was 15, and Olga was 12. Neither spoke English...
Since then they have performed around the world and won major competitions. They have learned near perfect English. After some bouncing around, they now live with a generous juggling aficionado in a mansion about an hour outside Los Angeles. And they have acquired a mentor, a brilliant, bombastic, shaven-headed, muscle-bound juggler named Jason Garfield...
...humanities and general education courses, but take them now because they are only “transitionary” and won’t be around forever. At the top of the list is the tag team of Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, who will co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium.” The reading list provided in the course catalog makes this class sound like a 90-minute version of a moral reasoning class, but those who want to concentrate...
...Harvard College Curricular Review’s General Education recommendations, though no definite time frame for when official student input will begin has been set, according to the co-chairs of the faculty committee in charge of the work. The committee’s co-chair, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, said yesterday that he anticipates students will be involved in discussing General Education changes “sooner rather than later.” He also said that the six-member committee plans to bring in other faculty and administrators and that...