The word that springs to mind is neither French nor English, but one in New York's unofficial second language, Yiddish: chutzpah.
Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old English major at Barnard College in New York, and Justin Lambert, a 20-year-old nursing major at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, are two cancer patients in remission who helped with the project.
In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.
And 90-year-old Victor Borge left his native Denmark at the start of World War II and arrived in New York in 1940 not knowing a word of English.
Cut to four years later and Batista, 41, is sitting in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in New York City looking through a presentation, in English, his dark hair combed back and wearing an expensive suit, a tightly knotted red tie and dress leather shoes.
This is a guest post by Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
Students at Catholic elementary schools routinely exceed the New York state averages in English and math tests.
Lopez recalled being a little Puerto Rican girl growing up in New York and only watching English-language television with her parents.
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Abelson graduated with degrees in chemistry and English from City College of New York, and earned a master's degree from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Since being performed at Bregenz, Szymanowski's operas have been performed by the English National Opera in London and by companies in Houston, New York, Chicago, France, Poland and Germany.
An Iona College English major who got a master's in business administration from New York University at night, Greifeld spent much of his career selling computer systems for processing and clearing trades.
Fifty-five percent of New York students met the English Language Arts proficiency standards in 2012 by scoring at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4, and 65 percent scored at least a 3 on the math tests.
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When Claudio Del Vecchio moved to New York from Agordo, Italy, in 1982, he understood neither English nor the U.S. eyewear market.
For its big customers, Reed Elsevier is building a global internet law source, so that a corporate lawyer in New York, say, can quickly retrieve French labor case law in English.
"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
When Claudio Del Vecchio moved to New York from Agordo, Italy in 1982, he didn't understand English or the U.S. eyewear market.
The English tests, administered to third- through eighth-graders beginning Tuesday, were the first in New York to evaluate students on uniform standards that have been adopted by most states and emphasize critical thinking.
Born in New York City, educated at Harvard and Cambridge, he speaks with a soft and measured English accent yet is every inch Burmese.
Yorke, who is forty-four, seemed considerably more tired than he had in New York, and was wearing a leather jacket and a thick woollen sweater against an unseasonably cold English winter.
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