International students hail from about 150 different countries, with Americans comprising about half of all international undergraduates and a third of all international postgraduates in the entering class of 2010.
Perhaps it had something to do with precisely what Bellow hailed about his country: its unheroic materialism, its lack of a tragic sense, its indifference to high culture — all the things that Grass hated about the Adenauer years, and that many European intellectuals, on the right and the left, still find contemptible.
The group's executive director David Babbs hailed the about-turn by the Government as an achievement of "people power" - a sentiment echoed by TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
In the Marxist intellectual tradition, from which many senior members of Syriza hail, progress comes about gradually.
In our system of government, it's not about Hail Mary passes".
I am a native Southern Californian (I hail from about 60 miles north of San Diego) and am thus qualified to affirm that one of the triumphs of the book is that while Lemann voices the same old complaints about California -- the lack of intellectual rigor, the obsession with health, the overbearing beauty and vapidity -- she manages to make it all sound new, accurate and hilarious.
"If you're talking about Hail Marys, then you talk about arm strength.
They looked kinetic, caught in mid-motion, as if they were about to hail a cab.
The pair of venture capital darlings, which both operate fleets of electric scooters around the world, are said to be in talks with the SoftBank-backed ride-hailing behemoth about a possible acquisition, as first reported by The Information.
The Westerners, a majority of whom were 20-somethings on the marketing team, hailed from about a dozen different countries.
