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Amelia Bedelia’s charming conceit—the ridiculous assumption that a born-and-bred Englishwoman would fail to understand common expressions in her own tongue—is a hard, ironic truth for immigrants in the real world. Central Americans who leave their home countries to find work in South America are confronted with vast linguistic differences between their respective regional versions of Spanish and those practiced in South America. This communication challenge, as I had the chance to observe firsthand last semester in Argentina, doesn’t do them any favors while they attempt...
...figures put the number of child soldiers at about 250,000, mostly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Even for those who are no longer fighting, the future is bleak. "That is the stage we usually fail them," says Olara Otunnu, a friend of Beah's and a former undersecretary general to the U.N. "Child soldiers may be, for want of a better word, the most sexy category of children affected by war; but they are not the only ones." Sometimes families cannot be found or refuse to take the ex-soldiers in; sometimes they can't kick the drugs...
...What they fail to understand is that African-Americans meet other intelligent, articulate African-Americans all the time. In almost every cycle since 1984, at least one of these brave chaps has run for President. Forgive us if we don't automatically pledge our votes to Obama and instead make judgments based on things besides skin color - like, heaven forbid, issues. Joe Biden may have misspoken - and in the process probably destroyed any remote hopes of winning the nomination - but he spoke truthfully for a lot of his ilk; Obamania is rooted in the belief that 50 Cent, not Barack...
...This is no desultory passion play. Even a non-religious foreign observer cannot fail to be moved by the intensity of faith that courses through the tiny room, a collective surge of emotion connecting today's Shi'ites with the events that marked their division from Sunnis and centuries of persecution, warfare and sectarianism. It is a powerful ritual of Shi'ite unity - one that the Sunni Taliban leadership attempted to curtail during their reign in Kabul...
...remarkably apathetic in constructively criticizing their courses. Only half were willing to take time out of reading period to provide valuable feedback for professors and administrators. It’s time to rethink the CUE, and Harvard can start by offering a better product and holding accountable those who fail to contribute...