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...chubby frame draped in black robes and turban, he maintained a permanent scowl throughout the press conference as if to add gravity to his words, delivered with a lisp in colloquial Arabic peppered with street slang, rather than in eloquent classical Arabic more common among Shiite scholars and clerics. And, again unlike other Shiite leaders, he spoke bluntly and aggressively, without vague hints and innuendo. Muqtada professes no gratitude to the U.S. for ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein. He gives all the thanks...
...It’s a little weird because Sanders is where I took exams. To speak there is a bit much,” Nair says. “But it’s pretty awesome—in the literal sense of awe, not the slang word...
...After four years of near-constant immersion in his blocking group’s bizarre form of hip-hop-derived slang, Travis F. Hilliard ’03 finds himself almost entirely unable to speak like a normal person under any circumstances. His recent description of Karen W. Milford ’03 as “that bitch I be nutting on” has caused quite a bit of friction, given that Milford is his fiancé and the description in question came during a dinner with her extremely Catholic parents?...
...knew he had the right man. Brühl, from Cologne, spent eight weeks in intensive training to master the East Berlin accent. His gullible mother is played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed...
...that even senior VPs and executives are still expected to don the latest A&F fashions. Michael J. Skey ’03, who was recruited for a merchandising post at Abercrombie, describes the odd site of middle-aged men walking around in vintage cargo shorts and throwing around slang faster than Justin Timberlake at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. “It was disconcerting,” says Skey. “These guys were like my dad’s age,” he says. “It was just kind...