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  • JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Wednesday, August 27, 2008 @ 6:43PMLonely Planet’s Audio Phrasebooks for iPhone and iPod touch are now available for sale on the Apple App Store in all territories, providing travelers with mobile access to Lonely Planet’s phrasebook content in 10 languages.
  • Scotiabank earnings top $1 billion in solid third quarter Tuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 11:23AM Earnings per share of $0.98 compared to $1.02 last year and
  • Bravery of Mad Mitch goes unrewarded despite success of Middle East mission Monday, August 25, 2008 @ 4:19AMIT all began with the words: "I have no compunction in saying that if some chap starts throwing grenades or starts using pistols, we shall kill him."
  • Lufthansa poised for alliance with Alitalia Saturday, August 23, 2008 @ 10:21AMGermany's Lufthansa is the airline in talks with Alitalia over a partnership deal aimed at saving the cash-strapped Italian national airline from bankruptcy.
  • Bravery of Mad Mitch goes unrewarded despit success of Middle East mission Saturday, August 23, 2008 @ 6:19AMIT all began with the words: "I have no compunction in saying that if some chap starts throwing grenades or starts using pistols, we shall kill him."
  • North Garnerville's new principal likes the school's sense of family Thursday, August 21, 2008 @ 2:37AMNORTH GARNERVILLE - Veteran educator Mary Esposito said she feels destined to help other people's children.
  • The Sims 3 moves in February 20 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 1:41PMEA's surefire best-selling life simulator takes root on the PC next year; collector's edition detailed.
  • Hagerstown Community College briefs Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 8:35AMCourse teaches how to become an effective supervisor; Beginning Italian for travelers offered; Certification course for bookkeepers set
  • Software recommendations for heading back to school Sunday, August 17, 2008 @ 3:09AMEach year at about this time I signal the beginning of the end of summer vacation with recommendations for educational software for students, teachers, home-schoolers and others who either need additional help or who want to get a leg up on fall term.
  • Dolce International Becomes Dolce Hotels and Resorts Wednesday, August 13, 2008 @ 1:00PM Before long-standing clients, colleagues, members of the International Association of Conference Centers and media, Andy Dolce, founder, chairman and managing director of Dolce International, announced today the metamorphosis of the company to Dolce Hotels and Resorts.
  • Nuance Communications Introduces Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, Breakthrough New Release of World's Leading Speech ... Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 8:57AMNuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech solutions, today unveiled Nuance's Dragon(R) NaturallySpeaking(R) 10 software, a breakthrough new release of the world's best-selling speech recognition software. With Dragon, people can write documents and emails, search the Web, and even control their PC entirely by voice, saving time and boosting productivity. Because ...
  • Nuance Communications Introduces Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, Breakthrough New Release of World's Leading Speech ... Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 8:00AM BURLINGTON, Mass.----Nuance Communications, Inc. , a leading provider of speech solutions, today unveiled Nuance's Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® 10 software, a breakthrough new release of the world's best-selling speech recognition software.
  • Emily's List Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 1:27PMBANISH air from air, divide light if you dare ..." Just what is Emily Dickinson saying here? And whom is she challenging? According to prominent New York artist Lesley Dill, these are only two of many questions to be answered in Divide Light , her new opera about the poet.
  • Kovalainen carves a slice of history Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 7:09AMHeikki Kovalainen became the 100th driver to stand on top of a GP podium with Hungary win.
  • From a budget trip to Sicily, the memories are priceless Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 1:07AMAs more and more backpackers pop up near my adopted home in Ireland this summer, I'm reminded of my own freewheeling adventures as a budget traveler. One particular episode, though, stands out above all the others.
  • Miliband Says U.K. Labour Party Must Offer `Change' (Update3) Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 1:40PMJuly 30 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign Secretary David Miliband , the bookmakers' favorite to succeed Gordon Brown as U.K. prime minister, said the ruling Labour Party must offer voters ``real change.''
  • Pilgrim Alden forefather of many Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 3:28AMOur recent Bit about the many descendants of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren prompted John Alden descendant Muriel Reynolds of Lynnwood, Wash., to inquire about the famous progeny of that Pilgrim.
  • Excerpt: 'Broccoli' Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 3:48PMAnother one, seduced and abandoned," Nina's husband said, pulling a bunch of wilted broccoli from the refrigerator shelf. He held it with two fingers as if it stank, his handsome face scrunched in a grimace of disgust.
  • Fallen Statues and Febrile Stories Sunday, July 27, 2008 @ 9:34PMBack when CD stores still existed on the Upper West Side, a Juilliard student I knew applied to work in one of them. The manager asked him one question: What opera features the popular aria "O mio babbino caro"? The student continued his job search somewhere else. This incredibly well-known air, heard in spaghetti sauce commercials and Andre Rieu concerts, is from a rather underplayed Puccini ...
  • Movie capsules Friday, July 18, 2008 @ 3:19AMRatings are based on the opinions of Gannett News Service, Associated Press and Courier-Post reviewers. : Excellent; : Good; : Fair; : Poor.
  • Police to double gang unit Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 4:15PMWENATCHEE - The Wenatchee Police Department for a number of years has dedicated two officers to reducing gang crime, but in September, with the assistance of other agencies, it will add two more officers to a new Pro-Act unit.
  • Numb Nuts: Newspapers Are Stupid Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 6:38AMI can't imagine what George Carlin is thinking today as he laughs down at us from heaven or up at us from heck. Oh, yeah, I used heck so as not to offend the readers of this Web site, especially the children who might stumble upon this post on their way to Romenesko.
  • Opera's looking good in Princeton this summer Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 1:15AMPRINCETON - For all of this community's affluence, superb venues, and ample IQ points, opera hasn't been the most dependable presence here, though this fifth season of Opera New Jersey may be a positive turning point. The opening-weekend productions of La Traviata and La Cenerentola filled the niche of quality summer opera in a congenial chamber setting more successfully than ever before.
  • R U 4 Laziness? :-) Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 11:38PMTwo girls sat across from one another with their heads bowed, not to bless the meal on the table but to better see the glowing cell phone screens in their laps. Their thumbs flashed across the keypads, chopping out poorly constructed sentences composed entirely of grammatical errors and emoticons.
  • The Right Place Sunday, July 13, 2008 @ 2:13AMFinding himself at The Right Place , the 33-year-old altoist Gaetano Partipilo shows he's an Italian up-and-comer as exciting as pianist Stefano Bollini or trombonist Gianluca Petrella, with whom he first co-emerged on their recording Up, Up with the Jazz Convention (Schema, 1997).
  • Reader Travelogue: Anniversary trip to Italy won't soon be forgotten Sunday, July 13, 2008 @ 1:13AMMy wife, Sarah, and I just celebrated our first wedding anniversary -- in Venice.
  • Newcomers Have the Numbers to Upend City Politics Saturday, July 12, 2008 @ 5:26PMNext year, an electorate transformed by new immigration will choose New York City?s mayor, public advocate, four of five borough presidents and two-thirds of its City Council.
  • Web Exclusive: Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words Friday, July 11, 2008 @ 8:21PMEvery so often, lexicographers make additions to dictionaries based on what words are easing their way into everyday usage. Find out what's new this year, and how the person on the street in Topeka does in defining the new words.
  • Movie capsules Friday, July 11, 2008 @ 3:14AMRatings are based on the opinions of Gannett News Service, Associated Press and Courier-Post reviewers. ****: Excellent; ***: Good; **: Fair; *: Poor.
  • Merriam-Webster Installs 'Bathroom on the Right' Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 12:24PMMerriam-Webster has added more than 100 new entries to its new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary. Is it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're planning near the infinity pool? And what's that wing nut in the corner saying about dirty bombs and nasty Noroviruses?
  • 'Netroots' and 'Webinar' Enters Dictionary Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 10:24AMThe web introduces new words into the American lexicon.
  • Webster's dictionary debuts new words Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 9:31AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who’s a pescatarian?
  • Happy day for word fanboys Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 8:40AMMerriam-Webster's has released its latest dictionary additions. Is it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're planning near the infinity pool?
  • White House apologizes for insulting Italian premier in press kit Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 8:31AMThe White House apologized today for a press kit that describes Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as one of the "most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice." "The often thick, paper-bound briefing...
  • New words wiggle their way into Merriam Webster s Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 6:20AMConfused? Quickly reviewing the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary should clear it all up.
  • Wordsmiths add new entries to Merriam-Webster dictionary Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 6:17AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're planning near the infinity pool? And what's that wing nut in the corner saying about dirty bombs and nasty Noroviruses?
  • Merriam-Webster adds 100 new words to dictionary; do you know them? Tuesday, July 8, 2008 @ 4:58AMTake a break from all the gloom and doom about the subprime mortgage crisis, won't you? Get dirty bombs and noroviruses and nasty computer malware off your mind.
  • An expanded vocabulary, dictionary adds 100 new words Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 10:23PMLisa Poole/APA look at a few of the new words included in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. More than 100 words were added. Take a break from all the gloom and doom about the subprime mortgage crisis, won't you? Get dirty bombs and...
  • Dictionary's new entries debut Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 8:49AMCheck out the latest words added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • Pass the prosecco: dictionary's new entries debut Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 8:15AM Is it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're planning near the infinity pool?
  • Pass the prosecco: dictionary's new entries debut Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 7:59AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're...
  • Pass the prosecco: dictionary's new entries debut Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 7:36AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of
  • Dictionary debuts language changes Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 7:14AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian?...
  • Merriam-Webster Surely Not Lost For Words Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 7:01AMThe Merriam-Webster dictionary adds 100 new words.
  • "Edamame" among additions to Merriam-Webster's entries Monday, July 7, 2008 @ 5:21AMIs it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold'em...
  • Tour lexicon Thursday, July 3, 2008 @ 8:42AMBaffled by the foreign terminology of the Tour? Procycling explains the key words and phrases. A bloc : English-speaking riders now tend to prefer to say they gave it "full gas" when describing their full-on effort at a crucial moment. A bloc is the French equivalent.
  • Latest Edition Cycling News, July 3, 2008 Thursday, July 3, 2008 @ 7:42AMThe Tour de France organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) knows 2008 will be a crucial year for the biggest cycling race in the world. Tainted by doping scandals these past two years, this year's Tour is aspired to be one of the cleanest ever, and strong measures have been taken to ensure this.
  • Fans embrace preparation for 'Jeopardy!' Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 2:45AMIf you know how to figure your Coryat score; can argue the pros and cons of the Shore's Conjecture versus Boyd's Rule; and were crushed when Pat Roche beat six-time champion Larissa Kelly with his blistering run of the "Football Coaches" category, it's safe to say you are a "Jeopardy!" fanatic.
  • Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 6:46PMSteve Kaufmann started learning Russian – his 9th language – when he was 60, and Portuguese at 62. He figures if he can do it, so can anyone. But they need a more effective method than the usual classroom milieu of endless repeating and exams.
  • Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 6:46PMSteve Kaufmann started learning Russian – his 9th language – when he was 60, and Portuguese at 62. He figures if he can do it, so can anyone. But they need a more effective method than the usual classroom milieu of endless repeating and exams.