Despite occasional grumbling that it may be too bellicose, the U.S. national anthem is hardly the subject of controversy — until you start connecting it with emotional subjects such as immigration and language. As the U.S. celebrates its Independence Day today, long-time visitors here may recalls this site's most commented-on blog post ever (almost 200 comments and counting!),
this one related to
Spanish-language translations of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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"
La operación fue perfecta." With those words, which first-year students of Spanish should be able to understand easily, Íngrid Betancourt thanked the Colombian military yesterday for her rescue from rebels. Her story is something that Hollywood probably already has on its drawing board, and you can get plenty of the details, in both text and video, today from
El Tiempo of Bogotá.
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