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Walking along Rue de Cornavin, near Geneva's main train station, Nesim, a 34-year-old immigrant from Turkey, stops to look at a poster plastered to a wall. It shows five dark-colored hands grabbing a stack of Swiss passports above the phrase STOP MASS NATURALIZATIONS...
...those of you who are unfamiliar with the history of “Fair Harvard”, Gilman’s 172-year-old hymn began with the phrase “Fair Harvard! Thy sons to thy jubilee throng!” Obviously, there is a gender-insensitive term there which prompted Kendric Packer ’48, to propose a contest to Harvard alums to provide a fitting alternative. Simply replacing “sons” with “children” had a belittling connotation and afforded one two many syllables to keep pace with...
...awkward sentence as they change “throng” from a verb to a noun. I am not exactly sure what a “jubilee throng” is, jubilee being the adjective apparently, but I am sure they can convolute some meaning into the phrase if they needed to try that hard...
...Obama stands, and it's where McCain was going this week until he ducked. The official text of his Portland speech contained a reference to a "cost equalization mechanism" - the trade-sanctions stick if China balks - but McCain edited it out before show time, replacing the mechanism with the phrase "effective diplomacy" - which sounds like jawboning that's all carrot, no stick. In other words, McCain hasn't decided where he stands on this all-important issue. But maybe that's OK. Obama or Clinton will be sure to explore it with him-in the campaign and perhaps as early...
...Shervington sighs. He has learned a lot of Pashto during his six weeks in Afghanistan, but the phrase he uses most often is yao wradz, meaning...