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The FBI Fails Cultural Sensitivity Training

April 18, 2012 -By: -In: Testing and QA - Comments Off on The FBI Fails Cultural Sensitivity Training

Muslims are violent and crazy, Asians don’t like to shake hands, and similar nuggets of cultural wisdom can be found in FBI PowerPoints, according to FBI training materials released in a six-month review of how G-men were trained, writes Spencer Ackerman of Danger Room. “It’s stunning that these things could be said to members of […]

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On to Z!

April 2, 2012 -By: -In: Language - Comments Off on On to Z!

“On to Z” was Fred Cassidy’s tag-line. 50 years ago the American Dialect Society appointed him editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE). Now Volume V (Sl to Z), the final volume in the initial series, has been completed. The DARE Project was an ambitious effort to document the local words and phrases […]

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