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...Today the working text is Sylvia Path’s “The Dreamers.” We’re almost out of the woods (having narrowly missed a fierce spat over adjective-noun order), the opening strains of the second stanza in sight, before we’re sidelined by a single dastardly phrase: “French window.” The professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina—and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense...
...News is marking 10 years on air with a 10-city "Thank You, America" tour, ending Nov. 14 in Detroit. One stop last week: Atlanta, where Fox broadcast from a park in sight of rival CNN's studio...
...fooled by the apparent sappy altruism of your fellow volunteers—they won’t seem so harmless when they snatch up your job at Citigroup. If you happen to enjoy improving the lives of others, that’s great, but never lose sight of the bottom line that if you haven’t built a school in Malawi by the time you graduate, you’re falling behind...
...compatriots’ anecdotes about hunting for wild boars—I must admit that I was a bit disappointed to return to Cambridge. It’s just hard for me—as it would be for any intelligent person—to bid goodbye to the sight of 11-year-olds wearing t-shirts with adorable phrases like “Sexy Bitch” printed on them, or to bus drivers wearing wrap-around Armani sunglasses. Therefore, my return has been fraught with a pain not felt by most Harvardians who study abroad over the summer...
...cute Australian neighbor, Amanda—played with deft adorability by Jacinda Barrett (“The Last Kiss”)—Roger signs up for the class. When he shows up to the classroom there are about 20 other neurotic and emasculated guys cowering at the sight of Dr. P’s lineback-like assistant, Lesher (Michael Clark Duncan, “Talladega Nights”). Then Thornton emerges, like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield on Red Bull, relentlessly mocking these wusses and instilling in them pseudo-macho wisdom about landing hot chicks...