NOTES FROM ACADEME

Summertime in Vermont, and the Sound of Arabic Echoes in the Hills

By ANDREA USEEM


Middlebury, Vt.

Thirteen of us gather around the television, watching the news beamed in from an Arabic news station in Qatar. The announcer, clad in a long white tunic, or abaya, and head covering, speaks in rapid-fire Arabic as pictures of Ehud Barak, Israel's prime minister, and President Clinton flash across...

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