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...Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion”), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper English and slang, and even pre-pubescent love.Director Doug Atchison certainly had to go to great lengths to get this inspirational drama released. Surprisingly, Starbucks Entertainment, a subsidiary of the well-known coffee chain, is a major driving force behind the movie. As a consequence, you’ve probably noticed...
...ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother and I met a beautiful Italian waitress in Florence who barely spoke English, she asked where we studied. “Princeton,” he said; she simply shrugged her shoulders. “Harvard,” I replied, and in a flash, her eyes lit up with excitement. “Harvard?! Amazing.” It is amazing?...
From Cleveland, Ohio, ROBERT P. CIOFANI ’09 is an English concentrator and a Canaday intramural captain, but soon he’ll be competing for Winthrop. His summer plans involve a “stuffy law office,” where he will be clad in a suit and tie every...
...first three days, and certainly not extending into the second week. Until such changes are made, “reading period” will never truly live up to its name, and will never be much benefit to students. Ashton R. Lattimore ’08 is an English concentrator in Dunster House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Helprin concurs that “we’ve kept the Greek flavor, but everyone speaks in modern English...