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Inside the Swiss National Park, the Hotel Parc Naziunal Il Fuorn is one place to hear the language in action.
BBC: The Swiss train tourists don��t take
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Just as the bilingual school-teaching which California did away with in 1997 obscured more fundamental problems over achieving literacy in any language, affirmative action channelled good motives down a false path.
ECONOMIST: Affirmative action in California
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China could well win, as it has been preparing for the long-rumored WTO action by couching its export policies in language consistent with recognized WTO environmental exceptions.
FORBES: Forget the WTO: The Rare Earths Solution Is Right Here at Home
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Peers are calling for "urgent action" from the government to improve language teaching in schools and universities.
BBC: News | Education | 'End the language barrier'
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Violating military regulations to spread messages of peace in a universal visual language, Banksy animates painting as both image and action.
FORBES: J.S.G. Boggs' Counterfeit Money Is Worth More Than The Real Thing. Are You Buying It? [Book Excerpt #2]
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The figure at the centre of the action - the caller - traditionally announces each number in a language so familiar it has become corny: "Two fat ladies - 88", "clickety click - 66".
BBC: Online bingo: A very full house
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Watching the remarkable cast in action, you'd think they owned the exclusive rights to the language of Shakespeare.
WSJ: Phoenix Is on the Money as Johnny Cash
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So-called foreign policy realists, particularly in the academic world, believe that the competing interests of states tend automatically toward balance and require no statesmanlike action by the U.S. To them, the old language of force in international politics has become as obsolete as that of the "code duello, " which regulated individual honor fights through the early 19th century.
WSJ: Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and World Disorder
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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
CNN: Review: Exciting 'Beowulf' jumps off the screen