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...common problem. You book a trip, fail to pick up a phrase book and before you know it you're shaking hands, toasting - or wildly gesticulating - in your destination, wishing you had mastered just a couple of phrases of the local language. Since 2005, travelers on selected flights of Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and half a dozen other carriers have been avoiding this problem with Berlitz World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics...
Outsiders and rebels add drama to political life. They also often fail. Clinton, Greeley and Willkie lost their respective elections and had little effect on the parties that they had represented. Only Reagan reached the White House and left a permanent mark on politics. An argument that Alexis de Tocqueville made about history applies to political parties as well: aristocratic ages are shaped by a few individuals; democratic ages, by many acting at once. Parties are mule teams with millions of mules. It takes a great deal to get them to change direction...
...Right on cue, this paper’s Editorial Board also attempted an opinion, only to fail utterly by trying to have it both ways, praising Petersen’s speech but faulting him for his timing...
...while Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial columnist, said that a woman thinking of taking FemSex would be better off finding a sexually progressive boyfriend or visiting a psychiatrist if she has menstrual-stigmatization issues. Both writers make note of the course fee, but fail to mention that payment for it is optional and that the price is highly subsidized by grant money. Neither of these writers had enrolled in the class, but of course, they are perfectly licensed to their opinions...
...reactions,” he said. “One is, ‘I’m really excited, you rock!’ The other is, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this. I’m going to fail my midterms because...