Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney of taking out of context comments he made about bilingual education. The speaker's comments are referenced in a Spanish-language political ad. During Thursday night's CNN Republican candidates debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Romney about it, "You've had an ad running saying that Speaker Gingrich called Spanish -- quote -- 'The language of the ghetto.' What do you mean by that?"
Luis von Ahn shares how his new project will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web.
I want to translate the Web into every major language: every webpage, every video, and, yes, even Justin Bieber's tweets.
This rural community in the southeast corner of Iowa is one of the last places you would expect to find a large number of students who don't speak English, yet English language learners have had a huge effect on the schools there, according to Columbus Community Schools Superintendent Rich Bridenstine.
Thousands of black Hondurans paraded through the streets of the capital Friday as the country's president pledged to do more to promote and protect their heritage.
It cost more than $193 million for the Pentagon to implement the policy of removing gays and lesbians from military service over six years, a study says.
Iraq War vet Anthony Woods describes the ceremony where President Obama signed the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell."
When it came to change, my father had it licked. His motto was simply "Don't let it happen to you."
CNN.com's Liz Landau shows us how easy it is to learn a foreign language online.
Whether I was squeezing myself into a crowded subway car or admiring the fall leaves around at Tsaritsino Park, I was constantly learning new Russian words during my two-week study trip to Moscow last October.
Whether I was squeezing myself into a crowded subway car or admiring the fall leaves around at Tsaritsino Park, I was constantly learning new Russian words during my two-week study trip to Moscow last October.
An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, her mother contended.
Certain actions -- whether stemming from ignorance or arrogance -- will brand you a jerk. Experts offer advice to avoid the 10 most common faux pas among travelers.
Investing in the world's largest emerging economy is risky business. Sure, China's GDP has more than doubled since 2000, and VCs report eye-popping ROI from Chinese investments. But with the ever-p...
In order to meet the demands of companies outsourcing their call centers to El Salvador, the Central American country is beginning a program to recruit its employees from an unlikely location: the United States.
My request for a "better idea" on immigration ("Let's Get Real on the Immigration Problem") generated a lot of responses, a sampling of which are reproduced below.
We're road testing on this month's Business Traveller, testing all the latest gadgets, gizmos and must-haves to make life on the road more bearable.
The mood was tense at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, the...
The mood was tense at the Bel Age hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, then 42, the billionaire hedge fund manager who had just engineered an unlikely takeover of their venerable but struggling company.
Like Warren Buffett, Eddie Lampert calls himself a "value investor," meaning he buys into companies whose assets he calculates are worth more than the current trading price.
Retail deal maker Edward Lampert, who used his sizable stake in Kmart Holding Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co. to merge the two fledging chains, pocketed over $1 billion last year, making him the highest-paid hedge fund manager in 2004, according to a survey published Friday.
FSB: Visionary Inventorupdated: Sun May 01 2005 00:01:00
He revolutionized the way that many blind people read when he invented a machine that scanned printed material and read it aloud, and when Ray Kurzweil sold the device to Xerox for $6 million, he c...
WHEN ALL THE SCREAMING AND shouting and light-bulb popping have died down, there are a few things we can safely say about Eddie Lampert's orchestrated purchase of Sears by Kmart. First and foremost...
Edward S. Lampert is frequently described as being reclusive, but the multimillionaire investor was front and center Wednesday as Kmart and Sears announced their $11 billion merger.
Forget about that dream vacation at the beach for a moment. If you are a student, between jobs, or just ready for a change, don't pass on a chance to spend a few weeks or a few months working overseas.
At first glance, Graniterock's insistence on recognizing employee contributions may seem contrived. Of all the companies submitting applications for our Best Bosses issue, it was the only one that ...
Didier Benchimol lives in Paris. He grew up in Paris. He went to college in Paris. He runs a company founded in Paris and based in Paris. But from the moment he gets to work in the morning till he ...
Fortune: The Diversity Eliteupdated: Mon Jul 19 1999 00:01:00
This year, FORTUNE and the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), a nonprofit research firm, enhanced the second annual list of America's best companies for minorities by trying to assess the true i...
When Coca-Cola revealed at the close of business on Monday, September 8, that Chairman and CEO Roberto Goizueta has lung cancer, the reaction on Wall Street signaled a sober reality: It's okay for ...
You don't need a Harvard MBA to figure out that many of today's best opportunities for growth lie overseas. But when it comes to developing a global work force, most managers feel lost. What does i...
"The prettiest little factory you'd ever want to see"--that's how the owner, John Hazen White, describes the place. To get there, you debouch from Interstate 95 in Cranston, Rhode Island--a pretty ...
IT'S BEEN more than 12 years now since the Coca-Cola Co.'s patriarch -- a nonagenarian, cigar-smoking, Old South tycoon known simply as The Boss -- emerged from the live-oak shadows of his Georgia ...
While we don't assign rankings below the Top Ten, we present comparable data for all the cities in the study. There are 60, ten more than in years past. Four newcomers were previously in larger met...
ON THIS OVERCAST April morning, Marvin Starer, 58, the regular principal of Manual Arts High School in gritty south central Los Angeles, is wearing thick, sky-blue socks and rubber-soled walking sh...
Faced with ongoing globalization of their businesses, an increasing number of U.S. executives are learning a second language. Du Pont Chief Executive Edgar S. Woolard Jr. just completed a crash cou...
When Jean-Marie Descarpentries, the burly boss of French packaging group Carnaud, paid $1.4 billion for Britain's Metalbox Packaging last October, he acquired more than just a business. He bought h...
BY LATE 1987 the unemployment rate in Sarasota, Florida, had shriveled to 4%. That fact was of more than passing interest to executives of Lechmere Inc., a 27-store retail chain owned by Dayton Hud...
Three years ago Tim George, now 33, was making $17,000 a year teaching world history to 10th-graders at a private high school in Honolulu. ''Besides the terrible pay, I was putting in 60-hour weeks...
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