Accents

Success and Luck

Robert H. Frank | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business


Robert H. Frank

Luck's role in economic success remains oddly controversial. If you don't know where a new acquaintance stands politically, just ask him about this. If he insists luck doesn't matter, he's almost surely a staunch conservative.

Goodbye To 'G'day Mate': Australian Twang Is Disapearing

Yahoo! News | Posted 11.06.2008 | Style


Research shows the nasal Australian twang -- exemplified by the late Irwin and the character Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee -- will be phased out within a fe...

Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living


Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.