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When RSVPing, FlyBy was informed that all spots for guys had been taken. Hmm…this was interesting. Since when has speed dating been more popular among males than females? We immediately imagined a giant room full of white guys with yellow fever. Great...
...Shifting the focus of foreign-language study from written to oral instruction is only one way of making classes more practical. Berlitz also offers First Jobs, an increasingly popular course in which students are taught business and financial English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills - in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool...
Minow steps into the shoes of the most popular Harvard Law School Dean in recent memory. Her predecessor Elena Kagan has been credited with vastly expanding the faculty, presiding over a period of wildly successful fundraising, and healing rifts among faculty after decades of ideological conflict at the school...
...York's race that's grown over the years: 425,000 people finished marathons in the U.S. last year, according to Running USA, up from just 25,000 in 1976. But it's only in the relatively recent past that the notion of running 26.2 miles became a popular way to kill a few hours. (See the top 10 endurance competitions...
...does Chirac's prosecution have much support among France's politicians - both on the right and left. Conservatives point out that the allegations are 15 years old and say a trial only risks sullying the image of a 76-year-old man still considered to be among the most popular public figures in France. According to a survey conducted earlier this month by the Ipsos polling company, Chirac enjoys a 76% approval rating. (Read: "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...