Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons
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NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea…
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June 10, 2016
March 28, 2014Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura Hernandez We’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puter…
January 9, 2013Anthropologists and linguists no doubt are having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how, in the early autumn of 2012, “Gangnam Style” became an American idiomatic expression. It stands for…
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