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...When I joined the Phillies broadcast crew in 1980, I was a neophyte. In the beginning, my job was pretty much to get chairs for all the other guys. But I was lucky to work with a legend. Harry never pulled me aside to give me any kind of speech. I learned by observing and listening. I'd study his flow, his cadence, his timing--just being in his presence was the best training you could...
...Certainly, President Obama and his administration are justified in their concerns over anti-Semitism and efforts to single Israel out for its actions. But, if the U.S. boycott was supposed to function as a protest, it was a misguided one. It did not prevent Ahmadinejad from making his speech and sending his message to the world; with those nations who did stay presumably supportive or neutral toward Ahmedinejad, the applause drawn by the Iranian leader seemed all the louder, coming as it did from these remaining delegations. What it did do instead was to allow the controversy surrounding his disparagement...
Haven’t we heard this one before? Last week, Iran’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made a speech in which he said nasty, provocative things about Israel, leading to international uproar. Controversy is nothing new for Ahmadinejad, whose previous remarks—including “The American empire in the world is reaching the end” and “Israel is about to crash. This is God’s promise and the wish of all the world’s nations”—are notorious...
...slows the learning process. "There's a real benefit to having the right dose of grammatical awareness, as well as English explanation," says Ferriss, whose book, The 4-Hour Workweek, is currently eighth on the New York Times business best-seller list. "The idea that you can learn honorific speech in Japanese without English explanation, for example, is, to me, handicapping. Rosetta Stone's method is effective. But it shouldn't be positioned as perfect...
...Espada says that run-ins such as this with people including administrators and students, have motivated him to extensively research the laws and policies protecting free speech on campus. He says that one of his preferred modes of dealing with threats to his rights is speaking with University Ombudsman Lydia Cummings...