Archive for October 30th, 2003

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New Piercing Fad Thwarts Metal Detectors

Garry ‘Stretch’ Turner was hoping to clip more than 153 pegs to his face at the
launch of the 2004 Guinness Book of Records in Manchester. But his effort
at the city’s Arndale Centre failed when he managed to clip on only 150
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Quote of the Day

“John Silber is the Fidel Castro of American Higher Education”
- The Dowbrigade

Not Sensei, Just Dowbrigade-san

An interesting article from the New York Times about the tendency in
Japan to use or not to use honorific titles. This goes to the point
of one of my areas of special interest – the relationship between language
and culture, in this case business culture.
While dropping [...]


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