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| Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:05 AM PDT I recently saw a BP commercial that absolutely floored me. The ad features shill Fred Lemond, a folksy BP Operations Manager, describing the company’s “continuing commitment to America.” After the enormous spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico at one of BP’s drill sites two years ago, “the people of BP made a commitment [...] |
| Why Asian Students Give Themselves New Names in the U.S. Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:56 AM PDT I am taking a graduate course at a college in Boston. The program I’m in attracts students from around the world, but especially from China and Taiwan. I’ve just learned about an interesting convention that many of the students from China and Taiwan observe: they adopt an “English” first name and forgo using their given [...] |
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