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...ironic thrill. He holds the house record, 257, at the Pin-Up Bowl in his native St. Louis, but more to the point, he knows no such thing as an ironic thrill. Ever since he became an instant gazillionaire thanks to his 2000 nursery-rhyme hit, Country Grammar, his life has been dedicated to the fulfillment of a Maxim-style populist fantasy: fun, all the time. He owns a massive house by a Missouri lake, a clothing line and a slice of an NBA team, and, if they kept charts on such things, he would easily...
...really confused." Most Germans are just as bewildered about how their written language is changing - which is why a grassroots revolt is trying to save the old ways. Back in 1996, the governments of Germany, Switzerland and Austria agreed on far-reaching reforms meant to simplify the spelling and grammar of their complex common tongue. Educators had argued that the old rules were confusing and contradictory. But the revision - 12,000 new or altered spellings and many grammar changes, which have been taught in most classrooms since 1998 - turned out to be just as bad. The new rules are scheduled...
...readers making quick calculations about my age: my brother is muuuuuuch older than I.) She?s the oldest of four girls who, though born too late to have heard the material firsthand, somehow knew most of the songs of that miracle year, 1957, by the time they were in grammar school. At family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl with three sisters now has three daughters: Allie...
...never before published writings by Jefferson on Napoleon Bonaparte, the controversial presidential election of 1800 and the death of a favorite slave. Covering 1799 through early 1801, when Jefferson served as Vice President under John Adams, the epistles reproduced here are faithful to the Founding Father's spellings and grammar except for his habit of beginning sentences with a lowercase letter, which has been changed for clarity. The eloquence and the complexity of the man, however, are in full view...
Michael B. Sullivan, a resident tutor in the Classics at Dunster House who advised Agarwalla on his grammar and syntax, says the speech is unique because it combines “scientific and humanistic points of view...