Christmas in Italy
Part 3: My own language guide
By Sydney Kornegay skornegay@hotmail.com
      My Italian phrasebook claimed to be the "complete language guide," - everything I needed to know to understand the language. My Italian phrasebook lied. While the book had most of the words necessary for basic communication, it omitted several key phrases, especially r...
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Local educologist visits Lithuania
By Dr. Jim Fisher fisher_james@msn.com
      Government schools, or as we call them here in the USA, "public schools," are being challenged in newly developing democracies such as Lithuania. Their government school students have more and more, rather than less and less, freedom to make choices of how to conduct their lives...
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My Encounter with America
Part 6: Money blows up and yellow flour causes impotency
By Zadok Ekimwere zomwere@hotmail.com
      The meeting to review the first two weeks was somber because most reports were negative. Being cantankerous, the journalists presented their side of the story first. They complained there was a news black- out about their home countries or their activities in American media.
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