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Most parents can recall a moment like the one David Refkin experienced the day he visited his daughter Julie's grammar-school class to talk about environmental issues. Refkin ran into tougher questions than he had expected. "One of the children asked me why TIME had to cut down so many trees to print magazines," says Refkin...
Also, the current two-semester system, which inevitably requires mid-year exams, is relatively new. As late as the nineteenth century, the Harvard calendar included three terms. Of course, this was a time when the specific courses were mandatory and included such tantalizing subjects as Livy, Horace and English Grammar...
Although it might be rude to point out, language is not a sacred entity. The French language did not descend from the heavens in its present incarnation. As Steven Pinker, a professor at M.I.T., explained in his New Republic article entitled "Grammar Puss," language is a continually evolving conglomeration of sounds and symbols inherited and assimilated from countless cultures...
...there's more to this bookstore than reading material for classes. Schoenhof's sells grammar textbooks and dictionaries in 250 languages, comic books, current novels, mysteries, children's books, and books for specialists. It also functions as a wholesale retailer for institutions and bookstores throughout the country. This effort, according to Leyenson, is unparalled by any other bookstore in the country. "Others have tried but gone out of business," he says. "It's a tough...
TRUE ROMANCE and KALIFORNIA: These glam noir films are all blood, greasy hair and bad grammar. Kalifornia features Brad Pitt, America's coolest male star, as a grubby killer. Patricia Arquette, the gum-cracking call girl in True Romance, is also an Armani model...