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Cultural differences can often result in humorous situations for foreign students. Ndiaye says that he did not originally realize that asking "How are you?" could simply be a form of greeting. He says that he would try to answer when people on the street would address him in this way...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: A Long Way From Home | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

That child was born into a rambling, bohemian flat in London's South Kensington neighborhood. At three Andrew began studying the violin; later he took up the piano and horn. "It was extremely noisy around our house," remembers Brother Julian. "I'd be scraping away on the cello, and Andrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

After listening to speaker after speaker deliver withering denunciations of his performance as head of the Moscow Communist Party, starting with a personal attack by his mentor Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin was clearly stunned. "At this plenum I have heard many things, things such as I had never heard in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union I Am Very Guilty | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

6) An Overwrought Press Conference. With a rambling and disjointed opening statement, Biden failed to reap the benefits of public confession, even though he called himself "stupid" and his actions "a mistake." Part of the problem is that he contradicted himself by also insisting that it was "ludicrous" to attribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

The studio apartment is hidden away amid the rambling old Mafia hotels and quiet leafy parks of Vedado, Havana's modern midtown district. Like many a Cuban home, it has a dusty attic quality, the poignancy of a well-cared-for poverty. The apartment's contents are fairly typical. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Whispers Behind the Slogans | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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