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...Harvard’s vocabulary,” Mattison said. “They use all this funny jargon to describe what is happening.” —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...hour per week. Doyle said that primary use for the program seemed to stem from graduate students who needed to refresh their memories in order to prepare for their Ph.D foreign language exams. Undergraduates said they were interested in using Rosetta Stone to practice languages for travel. Marino F. Auffant ’10 was one of those students. Auffant signed up for Rosetta Stone’s Korean program because he was going to be traveling to Korea over the summer and wanted to review what he’d learned before and during freshman year. Although he said...
...Core, more students had been expected to stick with the older program. But several students interviewed by The Crimson this week say that switching to the Gen Ed system allows them to shed requirements that they would otherwise be required to fulfill if they stayed in the Core. Fathima F. Jahufar ’11, a Molecular and Cellular Biology concentrator, went from six required classes under the Core to three required classes under the Gen Ed scheme. “I’ve only taken one Core class,” she said...
...contested for the first time in Africa, in the continent's southernmost country. The tourney kicks off on June 11, with the final on July 11 in Johannesburg. South African winters are generally comfortable, but as this June's Confederations Cup showed, it can get frosty (28°?F, or -2°C) at night. Yet fans could be warmed by livelier games. Former German great Franz Beckenbauer has said, "The players like it. You can only play a fast game like this in the cool or cold weather." See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...
...student at the University of Wollongong, Ajay Unni came face to face with an ugly edge of Australian society. Newly arrived from his native India, Unni was chatting with a friend at the local train station when a stranger came up to them and snarled, "Why don't you f___ing speak English?" Seven years later, Unni recalls the moment with some bemusement. "The funny thing was that we were actually speaking English, with a few words of Hindi here and there...