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...year ago, we reported that while English had become the most creolized language in history--melded with other tongues to form hybrids like Spanglish (with Spanish) and Sheng (with Swahili)--governments around the world had championed programs to teach the standard English spoken in American and British boardrooms (TIME Global Business, Nov. 26, 2001). Now in Tainan, Taiwan, Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair has taken English instruction to a whole new level. Garbage trucks in Tainan usually blare symphonies to alert residents to bring out the trash. But since September, Hsu has had several trucks blast English phrases like...
This semester is the first time “Latin American Film” has been offered. Three Latin American directors have already spoken to the class, including Augusto Tamayo, who was Peru’s selection to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Foreign Film category...
...unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love. And when men have triumphed in their arguments with women, the women play their ace: they say, as Molly Bloom did, "Yes." This is the last word of the first and third "Utopia" plays; in each case it is spoken indulgently, as a mother would to calm a child's questing, questioning spirit. The political theories of Bakunin, Herzen and their coteries were expressions of a dream for universal betterment. As Shaw and Stoppard know, men are the dreamers, women the realists. Women are the land men return to when Utopia...
...simian star Koko, a lowland gorilla who quite famously speaks sign language and understands spoken English, is already a star in print with, among other works, the young-adult favorite Koko’s Kitten and the primatologist favorite “Mirror Behavior and Self-Concept in the Lowland Gorilla.” Now she’s ready to conquer the pop music world with her latest release Fine Animal Gorilla, a benefit CD for The Gorilla Foundation...
...nearly three hours of conversation, emotion flickers across the face of the most popular Japanese writer since Yukio Mishima precisely once. After a wry put-down of a rival novelist, his eyes sparkle with mischief and his lips curl into a smile. But Murakami's words-both written and spoken-are a different matter. Listen to them carefully and you soon realize he is brimming with passion. As American novelist Jay McInerney puts it, Murakami captures "the common ache of the contemporary head and heart...