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...speak English. But the hesitant responses aren't coming in a classroom where foreign-language instruction is another obligatory grind in a long day of courses. Instead, these 18-to-25-year-olds are paying up to $6,000 annually to master a language they all took for six years in high school before earning their baccalaureate degrees and entering the job market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why France Is Pushing Its Students to Master English | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...election to decide the Democratic nomination is currently slated to take place on December 8, after which candidates will have six weeks to prepare for the general election on January...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Lag In Senate Seat Polls | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Pantoum,” of Maurice Ravel’s piano trio. The piece is usually associated with the Western classical tradition but, as Ma explained, Malaysian dance forms heavily influenced Ravel during his attendance of the World’s Exhibition in Paris in 1889.Later, six other undergraduates joined the Silk Road Ensemble to play music of Turkmen, Armenian, and Yiddish influence, using non-Western techniques and instruments to create music that was both captivating and unfamiliar. With irregular rhythms, a Japanese flute, and a hand drum, the ensemble seemed to conjure fantastic foreign landscapes.Christopher D. Chang...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reaching the End of the Silk Road | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...course during the race. As witnesses later verified, the 23-year-old had jumped out of a crowd of spectators about a half-mile from the finish line and simply sprinted to the end. An investigation revealed she had pulled a similar stunt in New York's race six months earlier. Unlike in Boston, she started and finished that race - but rode the subway for several miles in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marathon | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...contrast, as the army hammers rebel positions, many of the FARC deserters say they were desperate to get out. "Every day it's one or two deaths in combat or five or six deaths in a bombing," says a 21-year-old former rebel explosives expert who goes by the nom de guerre Visages. "Many rebels decide that they better get out before it happens to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Colombia's Leftist Guerrillas Are Defecting | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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