Zionist hooligans broke the theatre windows, and the government imposed a special tax on their show, because it was in Yiddish and not in Hebrew, the proper language of the new state.

ECONOMIST: Lillian Lux

Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.

NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.

FORBES: Free Online Education Site Announces Big Expansion