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...hear that you are a foreign-language buff. How many languages do you speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Shakira | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and some Italian. In my family, there are a few people who speak seven languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Shakira | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...Malley was inspired by the Cardinal's decision to permit and preside over a funeral Mass for the late Senator Ted Kennedy. And it has set the Catholic world abuzz. Even more than protests over the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak, disputes over the Kennedy funeral have brought into the open an argument that has been roiling within American Catholicism. The debate nominally centers on the question of how to deal with politicians who support abortion rights. Burke and others who believe a Catholic's position on abortion trumps all other teachings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Priests Spar Over What It Means to Be Catholic | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

...Social Change,” which has an enrollment of over 100 students, invites leaders in a diverse range of child advocacy roles to speak and connect with Harvard students...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Child Advocacy at Law School | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...those early years, curmudgeons did their best to rain on the parade. A 1904 letter to the editor urged the New York Times to speak out against the "evil" practice, suggesting that parade horses spooked by falling ticker tape might plow into the crowd on the sidewalk and cause "disaster." (A few years later, an overzealous reveler reportedly neglected to tear the pages out of a phone book and instead threw the whole thing out the window; it struck a passerby and knocked him unconscious.) By 1926, New York Stock Exchange officials had grown concerned about the cost of tossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticker-Tape Parades | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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