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...tainted goal. In much the same way, a Press Association report on the semifinal between France and a Portuguese team accused of unfair tactics voted the French worthy winners on "moral terms." In the same game, the Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo, who was thought to have contributed to English striker Wayne Rooney's quarterfinal sending off, walked onto the pitch to a chorus of jeers. The air of moral seriousness that still underpins 21st century sports shouldn't surprise anybody with an eye for historical continuity. The administrative codes by which most mass-spectator sports are governed were generally assembled...
BEIJING—Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...
...muted sobbing. Perhaps she is remembering a strikingly similar scene from six months ago, when Hassan’s twin brother died of pneumonia.This morning, I asked a pediatrician if Hassan had been tested for AIDS. He shook his head and explained, in halting French and broken English, “With children, there’s no point in invoking a social stigma when there’s nothing I can do to treat them anyway. So what do I do? If he gets malaria, I treat it. If he gets pneumonia, I treat it. And I will...
...many girls saw this 1948 English musical melodrama and, no matter what the heroine's fate, decided to put on ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...worth noting that whitehouse.gov, the official website of the U.S. President, offers the option of viewing that site in Spanish. I suppose if English were to become the official language, the website would have to change, and that could pose a problem at election time. Moreover, I think more revenue would be collected if tax forms continue to be available in Spanish. I suppose with the new mentality of Fortress America, if you're going to build walls to keep out the foreigners, you might as well use language to keep them out as well. Dave Horne Helvoirt, the Netherlands...