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...trilingual conversation, in three sentences.By all means, come to Buenos Aires. When Harvard’s intersession rolls around, it’ll be gorgeous here in the southern cone of South America. After all, this city breathes what Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar immortalized in print. Such idylls offer much more than mere hazy fantasies of cheap, hedonistic living. You just won’t find that kind of free ticket here; and in the meanwhile, you’ll be annoying the heck out of the rest of us.Grace Tiao...
...side. You can submit special delivery instructions too, and put the tip on your credit card. Another helpful resource for New Yorkers: Menu Pages, a searchable database of restaurants that also lists them by cuisine and by neighborhood, posts reviews and ratings and provides menus formatted to print...
...attempts to solve it." But the term also has had racial implications. In his book Coup, John Updike says of a white woman who prefers the company of black men, "some questing chromosome within holds her sexually fast to the tar baby." The Oxford English Dictionary (but not the print version of its American counterpart) says that tar baby is a derogatory term used for "a black or a Maori...
...McKean, editor-in-chief of the Oxford American Dictionary "What's really important is not etymologically what it means, but the effect it has." And that is a constantly evolving standard. Witness the debate over who can and can't use the N-word. McKean says that the next print version of the Oxford American Dictionary will note that tar baby can have derogatory connotations. Which may help public figures avoid becoming ensnared by Br'er Fox more than a century after he set his little trap...
...audience, or appealing directly via gay media - it's cool to think pink. "This is an important market [with] good levels of disposable income," says a spokesman for British Airways, whose ads - like the one marking its commitment to EuroPride '06 - appear in gay media both in print and online. That publicity has delivered the airline "good success in terms of driving revenues," he adds. "And that will continue." Commercial Closet Association, a New York City-based group that counsels firms on smarter representation of gays in advertising, logged 436 gay-themed ads in global gay and mainstream media last...