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...winners, in order of the number of votes received, are seniors Amma "Yo' Mama" Y. Ghartey-Tagoe of Mather House, Rachel L. Brown of Pforzheimer House, T. Christopher King of Leverett House, Andrew S. Chung of Cabot House, Xunhua Wong of Dunster House , H. Wells Wulsin of Eliot House, Matthew S. O'Hare of Currier House, and Kenneth N. Ebie of Dunster...
...addition to Goldberg and Brown, other seniors selected were: Andrew S. Chung '01 of Cabot House, Fentrice D. Driskell '01 of Mather House, Kenneth N. Ebie '01 of Dunster House, Jesse R. Elzinga '01 of Leverett House, Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe '01 of Mather, Chanda K. Ho '01 of Pforzheimer and Thomas Christopher King '01 of Leverett...
...that you might need an operation, don't you?" she asks her patient. Mallai bursts into tears. Nirmala patiently explains that a caesarean surgery will help the baby. Then she makes a little joke and asks after the rest of the family. Mallai begins to smile again. "The doctor amma [mother] is wonderful," she declares as soon as the nurse leaves...
...Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place. "Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed," said a Western diplomat last week. "In that...
...Sierra Leone, I was given a road project in Bombali district. I Kriolized (after Krio, the Englishderived lingua franca of the country) my technical words--amma, c'ment, 'spana--dropped them expertly and waited for cheers and applause from my workers. Meanwhile, I read something called, "How to Build a Bridge," and I built one (I'm still laughing...