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...wanted everything in our stall to look American," says the American Society's vice president Francesca De Feo, seated before a Boston Red Sox pennant and an image of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Like many of her fellow society members, De Feo majors in American studies, which her department handbook describes as "the integrated and interdisciplinary study of the United States and its culture." Peers tease her for devoting her undergraduate years to a nation that twice elected George W. Bush President, but that doesn't faze her. "We love America," says De Feo, who hails from the rural English...
...summer before her freshman year, Sarah H. Arshad ’09 received a Harvard College handbook listing all the concentrations along with explanations of what they were about.“I remember glancing through it and I kind of laughed like, ‘Oh folk and myth that sounds so funny and that was that,’” Arshad said recently.When she came to campus, she jokingly told her roommate that she was considering majoring in Folklore and Mythology, and then decided she should actually check it out.Today, Arshad is a Folk and Myth...
...town-hall meeting later overreacted with a torrent of p.c.-speak: a tall woman with glasses, for instance, demanded to be called ''vertically enhanced'' and ''visually challenged.'' The p.c. backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, has just come out, with its tongue-in- cheek catalog of p.c. terms. (Looters are now ''nontraditional shoppers.'') At Hooters, a fast-growing Atlanta-based restaurant chain, waitresses call themselves ''Hooters Girls,'' wear revealing skintight outfits, and appear on trading cards that trumpet their measurements...
...safe to say there's no page in the Democratic handbook that recommends sitting down with several dozen right-of-center Christian leaders one week after clinching the party's presidential nomination. So the fact that Barack Obama slipped away Tuesday afternoon to a borrowed Chicago law-firm conference room for some prayer and frank talk about his faith and to face some tough questioning from heavy hitters in the Evangelical, Catholic and mainline Protestant worlds could be the clearest sign yet that he really does intend to practice a different kind of politics. But it's undoubtedly also...
...cheerful, modern, orange-and-red Teremok restaurants or 70 Teremok kiosks in St. Petersburg and Moscow--which provide an equally cheerful customer experience--teenagers in red uniforms greet customers with a smile. Then, according to highly specific instructions laid out in the company handbook, they take, prepare and deliver orders. But in a twist on the concept that the customer is king, the wait staff's salutation is sudar or sudarynia, archaic Russian terms for "master" and "mistress." Teremok's fare consists not of American-style burgers but of Russian-style blini, the traditional thin pancakes, delivered with chain-restaurant...