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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home from work, I would hear 'NSync-style pop jingles on the radio telling me to "speak clearly." On the cartoonish www.sgem.com website, I took a test to "Have Fun with Good English." I didn't?I failed the test because I wasn't sure whether it was more proper to say: (a) "Please come with me, I will take you to the airport" or (b) "Please come with me, I will send you to the airport." (According to the website, the right answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Words Over 'Singlish' | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

Before descending into the Stygian darkness of the dining room proper, where flashlights and even luminous watches and mobile phones are prohibited, customers choose their fare in the restaurant's brightly lit, cheerfully decorated entrance hall. To add to the spirit of mystery, individual dishes are not clearly identified as, say, goat cheese on a tomato beignet. Instead, enigmatic descriptions such as "a flying visit to an Alpine cheese factory" make the diners even more curious about what's soon to hit their palettes. It's all very reminiscent of the exotic dinner parties planned by the Futurists, the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dining in The Dark | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...children on both sides of the “gifted” label. But is segregating gifted children as bad an idea as these critics claim it is? My experience, both in school and this summer with TIP, suggests just the opposite. Gifted programs are crucial in the proper academic and social development of talented children...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, | Title: Adventures With the 'Gifted' | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

Cuno said that through the exhibitions, the works will receive their proper recognition, which has been difficult with the collection in Cambridge...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revered Harvard Art Collection Will Travel | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...proper response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would have been to “think very intelligently...about how to dry up the sources of terrorism,” Zinn said...

Author: By Andrew P. Winerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zinn Calls U.S. Policies Ineffective, Immoral | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

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