Word: ago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only student passing precious time concocting plans. Never before my arrival in Cambridge had I met so many who shared my obsession with lists, who also made lists of the lists they had to make. A year ago, visions of sugarplums dancing 'round in our heads, FM's executive board churned out sheets upon sheets of big ideas. JP was talking color. Alicia made posters outlining a new set of deadlines. Aaron carried a clear plastic briefcase crammed with schedules, and Anna and I spent 15 straight hours attempting to revive Groovy Train in one fell swoop...
...takes the five of us until our final closeout to admit (despite all the evidence) that the rigid guidelines we designed last winter were simply not meant to be. I, for one, am still holding out hope that next week's issue came in two weeks ago...
...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...
...Alberto has balanced his financial needs with his desire for an education ever since he came to Boston from El Salvador 14 years ago. He came during the throes of a civil war to visit his sister. "I wasn't sure I was going to stay, but I knew there was that chance. It was a new world. The people weren't amigos. You'd talk to them, and they wouldn't answer." He worked to a high school diploma at Arrow High School in Brookline while washing dishes in Jamaica Plain. He then worked at the Newbury College dining...
They told me chilling stories about the difficulties they encounter. One was a union organizer from El Salvador named Jiovanni. Just weeks ago, the company he was trying to organize told him how much it would cost to have him killed: 100 colones, which is the equivalent of about $11.40. What's that to this company, when every hat made in the sweatshops Jiovanni was trying to organize sells for $20? In the past months, this organizer has even been personally attacked by the president of El Salvador--for his efforts to improve conditions there. The national newspapers attacked...