CLEVELAND, Oh -- Ask Yadi: Can you assume someone speaks a second language based on their name? Here’s a scenario that happens to me all the time: Folks see my name and automatically make the ...

Big Bear, the television show “Lost,” the U.S. road infrastructure and nyama choma, which is Swahili for grilled goat meat; these are a few of Doris Magiri’s favorite things. Magiri, a grad student in ...