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  • Spelling Sisters

    Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 11:01 AM | By Nina Shen Rastogi

    Last night's 10-round National Spelling Bee final was a nail-biter, and an awesome one at that. There were redonkulously hard, beautifully arcane words (schizaffin, palatschinken, Neufchâtel). There was heartbreak (heavily-favored Sidharth Chand, last year's runner-up, crumpled before our eyes in the second round, when he realized... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

  • You Never Forget Your Last

    Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:11 PM | By Nina Shen Rastogi

    Ann, the Spelling Bee makes me squirm too, sometimes. But it also makes me want to jump up and down—kind of like those hyperactive contestants—and squeal, because I love spelling bees so much.

    Maybe I'm culturally wired for it: As the Washington Post noted on Tuesday, spelling bees have a special place in Indian-American nerd culture. ("In the same way that Hakeem Olajuwon's success in the NBA inspired a generation of Nigerians to take up basketball... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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