Fewer than ten percent of college seniors believe that they have made substantial progress in mastering a foreign language.
But we think it will be a loss for the public, and the press, if no revision is made in the master narrative for election coverage, which treats politics as a strategic game in order to ask – endlessly – what it's going to take to win in 2012.
A secretive company has made a breakthrough in mastering nuclear fusion.
Mr. Coates, an architect and professor at the Royal College of Art in London, worked with the furniture company Poltronova, which had the pieces made in Italy by master craftsmen specializing in hand-carving, gilding and tufting.
The candle glass was made in Italy by master craftsmen.
Originally called "Jui Ken II" ("Drunken Master II"), it will be released this month as "The Legend of Drunken Master," on the theory that American audiences are unlikely to remember the original "Drunken Master," made in 1979.
It may not sound like a match made in heaven: Nelson DeMille, the master of best-selling thrillers, and "Rumpelstiltskin," the fairy tale?
What the gallerists have cunningly done is to create an alluring stage for works of art this modern master made in his prolific old age.
And past and present collide — and sometimes fuse — in the booth of Alexander Gorlizki, a British artist who is showing his own work, made in collaboration with a master painter in Jaipur.
But with the Cinema Archives series, all signs seemed to point to one unhappy conclusion: That someone was just plucking ancient video masters, made in the era of VHS and analog television, off a shelf and slapping them straight onto discs.
