Linguistics

Local woman to speak on National Mall (The Lewiston Sun Journal)

13 May 2008

RUMFORD - Sara Ray and her George Washington University classmates have been talking deep into the night about how to solve the world's problems during the past four years. While munching on leftover pizza, they've come up with lots of words.

No debate: True story inspires (Orlando Sentinel)

13 May 2008

*The Great Debaters (PG-13): Denzel Washington directs himself, Forest Whitaker and an ensemble cast of young actors in this inspiring drama about a professor (Washington) who trains an award-winning student debating team at a small African-American college in Texas during the segregated 1930s.

Swarthmore president leaving (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

13 May 2008

Alfred H. Bloom, who started as a psychology and linguistics professor at Swarthmore College and worked his way up to president, announced that he will retire next year from "the dream job in American education."