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US: Liberian War Criminal Held on Immigration Charges

Edit Voa News 14 Apr 2016
VOA News ... federal prosecutors have charged a Liberian immigrant living in suburban Philadelphia of lying about his past to enter the United States ... ....

English stands by jobseeker comments

Edit Otago Daily Times 14 Apr 2016
Finance Minister Bill English is today standing by comments he made that some unemployed young males "are pretty damned hopeless" amidst calls for an apology by the Council of Trade Unions. The union's president Richard Wagstaff said Mr English needed to apologise to working people after the "reprehensible" comments ... Mr English's comments were made during an address to a Federated Farmers meeting in Feilding last Friday....

Heart goes out to victim of Van Nuys salon rape: Letters

Edit LA Daily News 14 Apr 2016
Does he mean actual instruction in two languages, or the type of bilingual education which Proposition 227 got rid of in 1997, which held that native Spanish-speaking children should study only Spanish, no English for many years, often until middle school or even high school? ... 227 returned English instruction, not English-only instruction, and served as an important corrective to monolingual instruction masquerading as bilingual....

Nozomi sets ‘Super Gals!’ for July

Edit The Examiner 14 Apr 2016
This DVD set, will include the complete 52-episode (with a runtime of 1,300 minutes) anime series, presented with both English and Japanese audio, and English subtitles ... ....

2017-18 Fulbright Application Cycle Begins (Arkansas Tech University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. Arkansas Tech University). The U.S. Department of State and the J ... H ... Student Program has provided future American leaders with an opportunity to study, conduct research and serve as English teaching assistants abroad in order to build relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries ... Student Program offers more than 1,000 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship awards to over 70 countries....

Reading more is the secret to writing better

Edit Forbes 14 Apr 2016
During a recent interview, a non-native English speaker asked me how I have time to write. Unfortunately I misunderstood the question – or maybe I was too tired to think clearly – so I answered something like the following. I read around 30 books per year, mostly when I’m on [...] ... ....

Crystal Palace held 0-0 by 10-man Everton

Edit The Washington Times 14 Apr 2016
LONDON (AP) - Crystal Palace failed in its bid to secure back-to-back wins in the English Premier League and move further away from the relegation zone after being held to a 0-0 draw by 10-man Everton on Wednesday. James McCarthy's dismissal early in the second half presented a fine opportunity ... ....

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Fallonventions, Sir Ben Kingsley, Common & Ice Cube

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 14 Apr 2016
Joining Jimmy this episode are Oscar-winning English actor Sir Ben Kingsley, Oscar- & Grammy Award-winning rapper & actor Common who also perfoms with fellow rapper Ice Cube ... ....

CRAIG BROWN offers his entries for the dictionary of new words

Edit The Daily Mail 14 Apr 2016
The word Gaydar is now in the Oxford English Dictionary, how long will it take before the OED admits these brand new radar words, too? ... ....

Working people deserve an apology from Bill English

Edit Scoop 14 Apr 2016
The Council of Trade Unions says that Deputy Leader of the National Party, Bill English needs to apologise to working people after his reprehensible comments made about working people being useless ... ....

'Exhilarating' Man Booker International shortlist spans the world

Edit The Guardian 14 Apr 2016
The Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, Chinese dissident Yan Lianke, Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, Austrian Robert Seethaler and South Korean Han Kang have all been shortlisted for the award, which celebrates the finest global fiction translated into English ... Han Kang is shortlisted for The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English....

Heron, Two Rivers Honored by State with Gold Ribbon School Awards (Natomas Unified School District)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. Natomas Unified School District) ... Sixteen Sacramento County campuses received the award ... Two Rivers' Gold Ribbon stems partly from inclusive and collaborative instruction practices that are paying dividends for all students, particularly English Learners and those with special needs ... English Learners benefit from WIN time - Whatever I Need - to improve performance on essential standards ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33054071) ....

Ferrante, Pamuk up for Man Booker International Prize

Edit Denver Post 14 Apr 2016
LONDON (AP) — Elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk are among six finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction ... The award is the international counterpart to Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and is open to books published in any language that have been translated into English. ....
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