Mumbai, July 12: With BJP president Nitin Gadkari refusing to take back his Afzal Guru 'son-in-law of Congress' remark, Union FinanceMinister Pranab Mukherjee has said that some...
Gaeltacht summer courses allow students to gain confidence in their spoken Irish, writes Sylvia Thompson� THE GAELTACHT summer courses run by Col�iste Naomh Eoin in Dublin and Wicklow are probably the most school-like camps you will find - but those who sign up know...
Word nerds (like me) usually look askance at most tomes on writing and language. After all, pedantic autodidacts and overeducated sesquipedalians already know how to wrangle language and massage messages. Oh, occasionally something like the bestselling Eats Shoots and...
Sixty years after their first adventures, the Famous Five are to be introduced to a new generation of readers. But latest editions of the well-loved series won't be quite the full Enid Blyton experience. Children's publisher Hodder believes classic Blyton words and...
Divisive language On behalf of the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews (MCCJ), I would like to register our concern and dismay at the unfortunate references in the July 7 judicial recommendations. The editorial on the race in Broward Circuit CourtGroup 53 begins:...
"Reducing My Globe" by Justin Ripley Cannot recommend Seattleite Justin Ripley's album "Sex on the Beach" enough. The erstwhile Showbox sound-man's most recent batch of songs are '60s-ish bedroom-produced guitar pop, unafraid of running off on this or that dreamy...
"Talk is Cheap" by Language Arts The other night in Capitol Hill, I closed my eyes and listened to Seattlerapper Language Arts lob punch line grenades over deadpan syllable napalm. He did it for about 30 people at Chop Suey, opening for the opener for the headliner,...
On his 1999 solo guitar album Fingertip Ship (Metro Blue/Blue Note), self-taught fret-master Richard Leo Johnson depicted musical scenes as provocative and diverse as the documentary photography he had been previously known for. On his latest album, Language (Blue...
"Heaven and Earth" by Blitzen Trapper Portland's is especially adept where folk meets rock, but "Heaven and Earth" exemplifies a different '70s beast: the hypnotic piano-driven drama ballad (think Harry Nilsson or Paul McCartney). I love how singer Eric...
Tiger Woods couldn't stop doing it, but he wasn't the only one unable to control himself. At irregular intervals, the delightful sounds of swearing could be heard all over the place at Augusta National these past four days. On Saturday, microphones picked up the F-word...
When Rachida Dati, the most senior Muslim member of France's ruling UMP party, was electioneering in the Paris housing projects in 2007, she reprimanded a teenager for wearing a baseball cap back to front. Why, she asked, would anyone sport such provocative headgear in...