Werd to the Wise.

Brooklyn: Let's see what you can do.

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From my brilliant friend Salama--taking a look at some of the deeper effects of NYU in Abu Dhabi.

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knowone kNOws.

"...[he] was talking to Faunia quietly, seriously, but about what, of course, I did not know. Because we don't know, do we? Everyone knows... How what happens the way it does? What underlies the anarchy of the train of events, the uncertainties, the mishaps, the disunity, the shocking irregularities that define human affairs? Nobody knows, Professor Roux. 'Everybody knows' is the invocation of the cliche and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it's the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliche that's so insufferable. You can't know anything. The things you know you don't know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain, p. 209.

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Published Today!

Urban dictionary: youth slanguage and the redefining of definitionRachel E. Smith (2011). English Today, Volume 27, Issue 04, December 2011 pp 43-48 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=8428811 wOOt.

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loves.

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"I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies