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...this sort of all-American cachet. It's kind of like baseball and apple pie. It's also something that anybody can try, sort of like playing Scrabble - it's easy to get the hang of. And these kids are right at an age where they're like adults, but they're not adults, and they don't have a game face, so it's fun to watch them. You can read the storms, watch the sun come out - you can see all that on their faces when they get a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...positive message: that people of all walks of life participate in this. You talk about a multicultural society, and you look up on that stage and it's very multicultural - and in a really broad way, a kind of diversity you can't see just by looking: socioeconomic diversity, religious diversity, a diversity of interests. That documentary brought out the idea that all these kids are just kids. They come from normal schools, normal homes. They're all interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...happened to have a need. So I got in there as associate pronouncer, and that job is basically just making sure that everything the pronouncer says is right. It was a pretty easy job because [predecessor Alex J. Cameron] was good. Every once in a while I would just kind of nudge his elbow and nobody would ever know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...Dubailand wasn't depositing his money in an escrow account reserved for construction funds. He suspects his and other investors' money was used by the developer to purchase more land and then sell off more units without ever starting construction at a single site. "It seems to be some kind of Ponzi scheme," he says. What's worse, he then discovered that the company may have sold his property twice. "I thought Dubai looked like the safest place to invest in the Middle East," he says. "They appeared to have laws that would protect investors." But Dubai's real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Sand Castles | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...anticipate an India that will be more muscular in its regional affairs, better equipped to deal with the urgent policy challenges posed by a rising China. Some in the CPI-M foster a sense of solidarity with the land of Mao that Beijing has never reciprocated. "There is some kind of strange blindness to China," says Nigam, the former CPI-M member. "I don't even know how [the Communists] still see it as socialist. China is not in any way different from any other one-party, authoritarian state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Communists Are Losing Ground | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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